After the Normans took control of England, the Anglo-Saxons experienced a significant shift. Join us as we uncover what happened to them in the aftermath of the 1066 conquest ...

English owes much to its Anglo Saxon origins. Listen to the voices of rogues, knights and fops as they chart the history of the language. The Anglo-Saxons - A brief introduction to the origins of ...

A section of the Bayeux Tapestry depicts Norman knights attacking the Anglo-Saxon shield-wall. Read More Seamstress is single-handedly creating full-size copy of Bayeux Tapestry.

Anglo-Saxon and Norman nobles often were related. (How to spend a weekend in rural Normandy.) The problem. When Edward the Confessor, king of England, died in early 1066, ...

The Anglo-Normans arrive in Ireland . By the time the Normans arrived in Ireland in 1169, they had adopted so many 'English' customs that Irish annalists described them as Sasanach, Saxons.

The castle's original structure dates back to 1093, when the Anglo-Norman nobleman Arnulf de Montgomery built a small fortified bailey on the site during the Norman invasion of Wales.

ON 14th October 1066, William the Conqueror’s Norman army defeated Harold II’s forces, ending the Anglo-Saxon era in England. The battle took place over a single day, 958 years ago exactly, in ...