Anglo-Saxons are recognised by their moustaches. Normans by their hair, cropped aggressively short at the back. The more you look at the tapestry, the more sophisticated it appears. To take a ...

William’s victory at Hastings marked the end of Anglo-Saxon rule and the beginning of Norman dominance in England. Harold’s body, mutilated and unrecognizable, was reportedly buried near the ...

The Vikings were defeated but the Normans succeeded in conquering England, bringing to an end Anglo-Saxon England. This is known as the Norman Conquest. The Normans, or 'North-men', were ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Ulster Journal of Archaeology Vol. 1, 1853 The Anglo-Norman Families of Lecale: In ... The Anglo-Norman Families of Lecale: In the County of Down This ...

The towering castles that dot England’s landscape symbolize power, conquest, and control. For centuries, they have been viewed as monuments to the Norman elite who reshaped the country after 1066.

But it is the six centuries of Anglo-Saxon rule, from shortly after the departure of the Roman colonizers, around A.D. 410, to the Norman Conquest in 1066, that most define what we now call England.

Ironically, the best known venture of the Normans, Duke William ‘the Bastard’s’ invasion of Anglo-Saxon England in 1066, was atypical. In most cases the path to conquest originated with Normans being ...