What you might not know about the Bayeux Tapestry The Bayeux Tapestry is perhaps the world’s most famous "comic strip." Stretching nearly 70 metres, it tells the epic saga of…
How much Viking was left in the Norman Warrior of 1066? The Norman warrior who charged up Senlac Hill in 1066, armoured on horseback, cut a figure vastly different from…
The Early Medieval Shieldwall: Not for the Faint-hearted There was nothing remotely romantic about standing in a medieval shieldwall, it was simply a highly efficient expedient to winning medieval battles, …
After attending a recent enactment at Battle Abbey, I was reminded of the old Irish saying, “If ifs and buts were pots and pans, they’d be no need for tinkers'…
Consult most history books or even, heaven forbid, ask an AI engine if William the Conqueror was successful post-1066 and the answer will be a resounding YES. The Norman…
William the Conqueror would have turned in his grave
The jury has been out on William the Conqueror for over a thousand years but from a Saxon point of he was definitely a ‘bad ‘un’. However, history is written…
During 1066 the belligerent war leaders of Harold Godwinson, Harald Hardrada, and William of Normandy met on various fields of battle in England. They all believed that they had a…
