The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the English army under the last Anglo-Saxon King Harold II and the invading Norman-French army of Duke William II of Normandy.

It is the most famous battle in English history - its date of 1066 learned by generations of schoolchildren. So suggestions that the official site of the Battle of Hastings - and an expensive ...

Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy were two men destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066; two allies with no design on the British throne, who found themselves forced by ...

King Harold didn't die from an arrow in the eye, and six ... Many scholars now say that the notion that the Battle of Hastings had a lunch break came about because of Julian Rathbone's 1997 ...

The Battle of Hastings was re-enacted at the weekend, with King Harold, centre, taking an arrow in the eye An underground scan is being carried out at Waltham Abbey in Essex in a hunt for evidence ...

When King Harold II heard of the Norman invasion he began marching his men down to Sussex before battle ensued at about 9am on Saturday, October 14, 1066. What happened afterwards?

On this day, in 1066, Duke William of Normandy defeated King Harold of England at the Battle of Hastings. Click here for a video about "the most decisive, and certainly the most famous, battle ...

Archeologists are today investigating whether King Harold may have survived the Battle of Hastings. History dictates the king was killed by Norman soldiers during the battle in 1066 after being ...

A stone marking the site of King Harold's death at the Battle of Hastings has been moved - in favour of a spot about 20 ft (6m) away.

A group of "warriors" are staging a 300-mile march to echo King Harold's journey to the Battle of Hastings. English Heritage has organised the trek on horseback and foot from York to East Sussex ...

An underground scan is being carried out at Waltham Abbey in Essex in a hunt for evidence that King Harold survived the Battle of Hastings.