Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070

What was Britain like in the Dark Ages? Who walked across the landscape we now inhabit? Do objects such as those found in the Staffordshire hoard reveal a society far more sophisticated, wealthy and militarized than we had previously imagined?

Britain after Rome stitches together a wealth of research and imaginative engagement to bring us as close as we can hope to get to the tumultuous centuries between the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West and the arrival of the Normans nearly …