This was a period of great turmoil and displacement starting in 1066, when an army, led by William the Conquerer of Normandy, France, invaded and occupied England. The Norman Conquest was the last ...
There is clearly giddy excitement in the shaky footage showing hands scrabbling in the soil in the Chew Valley in south-west England ... from the time of the Norman conquest in the 11th century.
The Norman triumph was total ... but was brought back to England and beheaded near Winchester. The revolt was the last serious uprising against William. The Bayeux Tapestry is the primary visual ...
This was achieved through judicious use of the Anglo-Saxon 'local government'. Anglo-Norman England was 'governed' by local officers: the sheriff and the reeve, based within the shire. People ...
A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ...