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Murder in Anglo-Saxon England FD25 A story Winkle insisted couldWe all love a good murder story. Historian and author Annie Whitehead has collated around 100 cases in Anglo Saxon England, from regicides to robberies gone wrong, and from personal feuds to state sanctioned slaughter, examining their veracity and asking what, if anything, they can tell us about the motives of those who recorded them and about Anglo Saxon governance and society. The records contain many stories of murder, some of which include details