Beyond 1066
Famous Normans Who Reshaped the Medieval World When people hear the word "Norman," their minds almost instantly jump to 1066, Hastings, and William the Conqueror. Yet William was merely one…
Pottage: An Anglo-Saxon Staple
From Pottage to Pomegranates
How the Norman Conquest Transformed the English Diet Norman Entertainment: A Lavish Affair When William the Conqueror marched his army to the foot of Senlac Hill in 1066, he brought…
Mirror, mirror on the Wall...
Who Were The Most Influential Women In Medieval England
Crowns Won By Steel, Dynasties By Blood Mirror, mirror on the Wall... In the history of England there have been many outstanding Queens from Boudicca to Elizabeth II. But when…
The Battle of Fulford Gate
1066: History Hanging By A Thread
The What-if Moments from a Tumultuous Year Senlac Hill, 1066: It could have been a very different outcome. The year 1066 is etched into history as the ultimate turning point…
Assimilation or dilution?
After 1066: The New Saxon Homelands
The Forgotten Anglo-Saxon Colony of Nova Anglia When we think of the Battle of Hastings in 1066, we usually picture the final, tragic scene: King Harold fallen beneath a rain…
The Normans in Overdrive
Shattered Realm, Scattered People
The Fate of the Anglo-Saxon Diaspora After 1066 The Saxon Diaspora: Leaving Englands Shores Forever The year 1066 is often remembered for a single, pivotal day on a Sussex hillside—the…
No Let Up For the Defeated
Beyond Hastings
The International Lens on William the Conqueror’s Invasion of 1066 A Butterfly Beats Its Wings on Senlac Hill The Battle of Hastings on October 14, 1066, is a moment frozen…
What is Aelgifu's story?
Stitches in Time: A Writer’s Story
The Leopards of Normandie Series: Interpreting the Tapesty's Tale Dispelling the Myth Few artefacts from the medieval world capture the imagination quite like the Bayeux Tapestry. It is, effectively, the…
The Missing Piece
The Lost Finale
Reclaiming the Gritty History of the Tapestry’s Missing Scenes Missing Piece of the Story The Bayeux Tapestry, as it hangs today, ends in mid-air. The final existing stitches show a…
The Invasion Fleet
Threads of Power
The Creation, Craft, and Controversy of the Bayeux Tapestry The Invasion Fleet The year 1066 is permanently etched into the bedrock of Western history. In a single, blood-soaked afternoon at…
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