After their triumph in the Battle of Hastings, the Normans left lasting marks on the country’s aristocracy, architecture, and even the English language. In 1066, English king Harold had to fight two ...

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If you’ve been a schoolchild in Britain over the past half-century, you’d be forgiven for believing our nation’s history exists only in four key moments: the Second World War, the industrial ...

It has survived fires, bankruptcy and scandal, not to mention 153-years of lashing British weather, but now Hastings’s “peerless pier”, as it was hailed at its grand opening, faces a new twist in its ...