A NEW drama-documentary series, 1066: A Year to Conquer England, is coming soon to BBC Two. The show will explore the political intrigues and family betrayals that led to war. But who were the Angl… ...

In May 1066, Tostig made his first, abortive, attempt to invade England. Harold called out the English levy (the fyrd), which was an army of English peasant farmers obliged to fight for their king ...

ON 14th October 1066, William the Conqueror’s Norman army defeated Harold II’s forces, ending the Anglo-Saxon era in England.The battle took place ...

William’s Norman army; ... The Battle of Hastings began at 9am on 14 October 1066. Harold’s army was lined up at the top of Senlac Hill, forming a shield wall facing down against William’s army.

Field Marshal Montgomery's view of the Normans was coloured by his own ancestry - but others see England's conquerors in a much less rosy light. Michael Wood attempts to see both sides.

When William the Conqueror’s Norman army invaded England in 1066, the country’s elites found their world changed overnight. But while the new king’s land reforms—namely, ...

The Normans did not stop at the frontiers of England. In episode two of the series I visit the first Norman castle in Wales, Chepstow, which was built only a few years after 1066.

Archaeologists in Chichester uncovered stone bridge ruins used by medieval Norman army to cross castle moat, ... a period of U.K. history when the Normans took control between 1066 and 1154, ...

In one of medieval Europe’s most pivotal conflicts, William of Normandy launched a daring invasion of England, overcoming internal doubts, assembling a coalition army, and winning papal support. The ...

William invaded England in 1066, leading an army of Normans to victory over the Anglo-Saxon forces of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, and suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has ...

William’s Norman army; ... The Battle of Hastings began at 9am on 14 October 1066. Harold’s army was lined up at the top of Senlac Hill, forming a shield wall facing down against William’s army.

A NEW drama-documentary series, 1066: A Year to Conquer England, is coming soon to BBC Two. The show will explore the political intrigues and family betrayals that led to war. But who were the Angl… ...