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A carefully researched investigation into the Battle of Tettenhall, fought in 910AD between the Northumbrian Danes and a joint Anglo-Saxon army from Wessex and Mercia. Located in the West Midlands, the decisive English victory paved the way for King Alfred's daughter, Aethelflaed, 'Lady of the Mercians', and her brother Edward the Elder, King of Wessex, to begin the recovery of the Danish-controlled territory of the Danelaw. The book also includes detailed research on the pre-Conquest history of Bridgnorth, Quatford, Tettenhall, Wednesfield and Wolverhampton (including the puzzling cluster of Royal Free Chapels in the area), and a study of one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon sculptural works, the Wolverhampton cross-shaft. The book will appeal in particular to those interested in the pre-Conquest history of the West Midlands.

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