Wilmington is one of the Saxon fortified hill villages probably settled by Aelle after 477AD. The name is derived from Wylm ...

It’s not pronounced /wuh/, like the whispering sound the letter brings to words like whale and wonder. W’s name isn’t tied to its sound at all—it’s a historical nod to its origins. So how did this ...

Arguably, the most important building of the Norman Conquest, the White Tower symbolised the might and longevity of the new order. The imprisonments in the Tower of Edward V and his younger brother in ...

The current crisis between Israel and Iran, as well as the involvement of the United States of America, has proved once more that in international power ...

A re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings in which, on October 14th, 1066, William the Conqueror's Norman-French forces defeated an English army, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

We have never been cordoned-off from the wider world. Migration has been a mainstay of our history, leaving its mark on our language, our literature, our institutions and our culture. The Roman Empire ...

After the conquest, it's owned by a man called Richard. That's a Norman name, so it's gone from an Anglo-Saxon lady to a Norman man, and this incredible detail is replicated throughout the whole book.

In 1066 the entire ruling class of Saxon thegns, or landowners, was replaced; kingdoms were redrawn and a new language was introduced. For every Anglo-Saxon settlement sacked, a Norman stronghold ...

Rollo became the first Duke of Normandy and over the next hundred years or so the Normans adopted the French language and culture. On 5th January 1066, Edward the Confessor, King of England, died. The ...