Archaeologists have combined the latest scientific methods to offer new insights into life during the Norman Conquest of England. Until now, the story of the Conquest has primarily been told from ...
The Norman Conquest of 1066 did little to change the English diet — but pork did become more popular in its aftermath, archaeologists have discovered. Researchers from Bristol, Cardiff and Sheffield ...
Scientists recently unearthed the remains of multiple academic halls at Oxford University — revealing new insights into the ...
In a bonus edition of our defence newsletter, Richard Cockett takes us back to 1066—and the Battle of Hastings ...
An archaeological investigation is currently unearthing the hidden history of the Norman Conquest of Cumbria. This endeavour by historians and archaeologists from across the North West targets the ...
Those who love history for its action and drama will take special pleasure from Marc Morris' The Norman Conquest, a highly readable account of the events that led up to and followed the defeat of the ...
THIS month of October completes the eighth century since the battle of Hastings, perhaps the most important action that the modern world has known, with the single exception of the conflict that ...
It's not much of a place, Quetteville – a hamlet of only 400 souls in Lower Normandy. The food and drink isn't bad: this is Calvados country. And Pont-l'Évêque is just down the road. But much as I ...
William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact upon England by David Douglas (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1964). The classic biography. The Last English King by Julian Rathbone (Little Brown, 1997). A racy ...
"The Norman Conquests" is a trilogy of plays by the British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, and although I'm far from qualified to comment on Ayckbourn's craft, I'd be doing you a disservice if I didn't ...
Archaeologists from Cardiff University and the University of Sheffield have combined the latest scientific methods to offer new insights into life during the Norman Conquest of England. Until now, the ...