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… ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The original Bayeux Tapestry visually tells the story of the Battle of Hastings, which took place on 14 October 1066 in the south coast of England. At this conflict, the Norman-French army of William, ...

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, ...

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.