A NEW drama-documentary series, 1066: A Year to Conquer England, is coming soon to BBC Two. The show will explore the political intrigues and family betrayals that led to war. The Anglo-Saxons are a ...
The BBC is to provide viewers with a definitive look at a seminal period of history, the resonances of which can still be felt today, in a season focusing on the Normans across BBC Two, BBC Four and ...
Matthew Reid: It’s 8:30 in the morning. We’re in Prague. The large frightening man behind the bar stands with his arms crossed watching the only two drunk idiots in the tiny smoke filled watering hole ...
The Normans became masters of England, a centralised kingdom, in a matter of a few years. Wales, far more decentralized than England, proved resistant to the Normans' power. During the reign of ...
For many years, a Viking host led by a charismatic brigand, Rollo, had been pillaging up and down the Seine. But when he overextended himself with an attack on the cathedral city of Chartres in 911, ...
1066. Mention that year to pretty much anyone educated in Britain during the last couple of hundred years and they'll tell you exactly what it means, but here are the headlines: Edward the Confessor ...
The Normans became masters of England, a centralised kingdom, in a matter of a few years. Wales, far more decentralized than England, proved resistant to the Normans' power. During the reign of ...
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