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 ...

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

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 Normans introduced castles, revolutionizing England’s military and social structures. The word “castle” itself first appeared in English records in 1051, when foreign builders erected a ...

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 ...