THIS month of October completes the eighth century since the battle of Hastings, perhaps the most important action that the modern world has known, with the single exception of the conflict that ...

Morris (A Great and Terrible King) brilliantly revisits the Norman Conquest, “the single most important event in English history,” by following the body-strewn fortunes of its key players: England’s ...

Archaeologists have combined the latest scientific methods to offer new insights into life during the Norman Conquest of England. Until now, the story of the Conquest has primarily been told from ...

EAST SUSSEX, ENGLAND—A skeleton bearing six fatal sword injuries to the back of the skull has been radiocarbon dated to 28 years on either side of 1063, suggesting that the man may have been involved ...

Those who love history for its action and drama will take special pleasure from Marc Morris' The Norman Conquest, a highly readable account of the events that led up to and followed the defeat of the ...

LONDON (AP) — The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter- (229 foot)-long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be displayed in Britain next year for the first time in 900 years. It ...

"The Norman Conquests" is a trilogy of plays by the British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, and although I'm far from qualified to comment on Ayckbourn's craft, I'd be doing you a disservice if I didn't ...

A small contingent of golf’s biggest names are at a tropical resort late in the season, just like 27 years ago. There are differences between now and then, one in particular: No one should expect a ...