I am highly amused by the outrage I have solicited by merely suggesting a king of England’s birthday should not be the focus ...

The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter- (229-foot)- long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be ...

The embroidered work, depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, will go on display in London for the first time, on loan from France.

There’s something deeply compelling about standing where others once stood thousands of years ago—tracing footsteps in soil once trodden by Romans, Saxons or Norman knights. The past, so often ...

Erenagh Monastery in Downpatrick was destroyed by Anglo-Norman knight John de Courcy in 1177.

Archaeologists believe they have found the site of a 12th Century monastery near Downpatrick, County Down, that was destroyed in 1177 by the Anglo-Norman knight John de Courcy. The Cistercian ...

I am aware that from the earliest days there was a secular piece baked into the holy-days of Christian Easter and Anglo-Saxon Eostre. Rabbits and eggs figured into pre-christian stories, after all.

Historian Máirín Kenny describes in an essay how the old estate takes its name from Robert de Barry, son of William de Barry of Pembrokeshire, and one of the first Anglo-Norman knights to land ...

In 1185, Anglo-Norman knight John de Courcy reportedly staged the “discovery” of the relics belonging to three saints including Patrick.

Archaeology breakthrough as 900-year-old lost Bayeux Tapestry location discovered After 900 years, experts have discovered the site of King Harold's residence in Sussex, the last Anglo-Saxon King ...

The famous, rambunctious feast scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, two years before King Harold was brutally killed at the Battle of Hastings, has been located by archaeologists.

Lucy investigates William the Conqueror.[Men shouting] Worsley, voice-over: Most of us think the Norman Conquest of England happened in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings-- one battle won, and the ...