Some 200 years before ‘1066 and all that’, the nation that we know today as Great Britain was being planned, presided over and fought for by the only English monarch to ever be given the title ‘The Great’. And he did it by meticulously segregating his day into small chunks of time.
Alfred the Great was born into the royal household in Wantage, Oxfordshire, in 849, the fifth son of Aethelwulf, King of Wessex. By the time he was made king in 871, he had already forged a reputation as a great warrior and administrator (think of him as an early Vladimir Putin), fighting off the invading Great Heathen Army and assisting his older brothers in their ...
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