Anglo-Saxon England and the continent / Joanna Story. Language, learning and literature / Andy Orchard. Interactions with Ireland / Bernard Meehan. The emergence of a kingdom of England / Simon Keynes. Conquests and continuities / Julia Crick. Catalogue: Origins ; Kingdoms and conversion ; Mercia and its neighbours ; The rise of the west Saxons ; The emergence of England ; Language, learning and literature ; Natural science and medicine ; Reforming the kingdom and the church ; Music ; Art in the kingdom of England ; Conquests and landscape.