In 1215, King John of England faced discontent from his Barons, leading to the creation of the Magna Carta, a landmark ...

Archaeologists believe they found a residence of medieval ruler Harold Godwinson, England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. A nearby ...

The Battle of Hastings in 1066 was the decisive event in the conquest of Saxon England. Within a year, the Normans were building a castle at Chepstow and had begun their piecemeal conquest of ...

A lost fragment of the Bayeux Tapestry stolen by a Nazi scientist has been rediscovered in Germany and will be repatriated to ...

In 1066 there were two invasions of England ... This is known as the Norman Conquest. The Normans, or 'North-men', were originally Vikings who settled in northern France in AD900.

The Norman Conquest is a six-part animated series that explores the key events of the battle for the throne in 1066 and how William the Conqueror secured power. These short animated films might be ...

Illustrations of the grand hall in his residence appear twice in an 11th-century embroidered work known as the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts events leading up to the 1066 Norman Conquest of England.

After the Norman conquest of Britain in 1066, many French loanwords infiltrated the language, when French became a sign of prestige. Many of these words are related to food. Instead of eating an ...

Under the patronage of Anglo-Norman nobles and Welsh landed officials, the Poets of the Aristocracy thrived. The Conquest of Wales was a traumatic event. When Llywelyn ap Gruffudd was killed in ...