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. The Anglo-Saxons are a ...

The Normans became masters of England, a centralised kingdom, in a matter of a few years. Wales, far more decentralized than England, proved resistant to the Normans' power. During the reign of ...

THIS month of October completes the eighth century since the battle of Hastings, perhaps the most important action that the modern world has known, with the single exception of the conflict that ...

Matthew Reid: It’s 8:30 in the morning. We’re in Prague. The large frightening man behind the bar stands with his arms crossed watching the only two drunk idiots in the tiny smoke filled watering hole ...

For many years, a Viking host led by a charismatic brigand, Rollo, had been pillaging up and down the Seine. But when he overextended himself with an attack on the cathedral city of Chartres in 911, ...

1066. Mention that year to pretty much anyone educated in Britain during the last couple of hundred years and they'll tell you exactly what it means, but here are the headlines: Edward the Confessor ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Although the Normans were ferocious, they were godly in their way and faithful to the papacy which had blessed their attack upon England. They considered control over the Welsh church to be essential ...