The Battle of Hastings – A brief explanation
This is a relatively brief explanation of the Battle of Hastings (650 words). I recommend this to anyone with an assignment on the course outline of the Battle of Hastings, or anyone wanting to know the outline in it’s most brief of the famous battle.
Hereward The Wake: The Last Saxon Hero
From Prisoners of Eternity.
The General Knowledge Show: William The Conqueror – Early Life
Part of the General Knowledge Show’s series on English monarchs.
This is part one of William the Conqueror.
Harold Ii (Godwineson) Last Saxon King of England
From Hero and Villain: More Prisoners of Eternity.
Was The Conqueror a Great General?
A discourse on the generalship of William the Conqueror.
Norman Conquest and Consequences
1066 is a date lodged in the minds of Englishmen everywhere, but were the Anglo-Saxons really barbaric and the Norman’s civilized? What was the result of the clash of two cultures a millennium ago?
Good King Harold’s Eye
Did you think that King Harold died at Hastings in 1066 from an arrow in the eye? Well, you were taught wrong.
