This is the story of England from its birth under the leadership of Alfred the Great, and the farmers who marched with him and formed the Army of The Hardway Road. The Hardway Road was the first English army. It was a people's army - named after an ancient track way - and made up of ordinary working men and boys who left their farms and other places of work to fight for freedom against the tyranny of Viking invaders, who were destroying the country in a fashion, not dissimilar to many of those who populate the modern Conservative and Labour Parties, and who are themselves, ripping apart elements of society today, with their self-serving ideology and mendacious hypocrisies.