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The Battle of Hastings: How England was conquered in one day

One day. One battlefield. Two claimants to the throne. This is the full story of the Battle of Hastings - how William of Normandy seized the English crown, and why that single moment shaped the ...
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King & Conqueror review – Battle of Hastings drama is almost unwatchably dark

If you’ve been a schoolchild in Britain over the past half-century, you’d be forgiven for believing our nation’s history exists only in four key moments: the Second World War, the industrial ...
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Part war propaganda, part comic strip, Bayeux Tapestry to return to U.K.

LONDON — The earliest-known depiction of the 1066 Battle of Hastings — which began the Norman Conquest, changing England's ethnic mix and history forever — is coming home for the first time in 900 or ...
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The Bayeux tapestry : the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest / John Collingwood Bruce

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The Conversation

Why the Norman conquest still has a powerful hold over British culture and politics

Millie Horton-Insch receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Britain appears to be a nation on the verge of Norman-conquest mania. In July, the prime minister and the French president announced ...