In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of ...
The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was about 410 to 1066, and they originally ... and Saxons to move to England: Some were invited to help fight against attacks from Vikings and tribes in Scotland.
For many people, the mental picture of a Viking is of a blond giant in a horned helmet leaping out of a sharp-prowed longboat ...
How close did Scotland come to being a totally different entity in the 12th century when invaders from the Norse-Gaelic Kingdom of the Isles ...
Had they prevailed (although some would argue that they did, via their Norman relatives), they would have aborted the England we know today. Among these Vikings ... Norman invasion by William the ...
Here's how 19 different areas of Liverpool got their names. This list is not intended to be comprehensive, but see how many ...
These imposing-looking fortresses proved remarkably effective in resisting assaults and invasions ... the Conqueror’s takeover of England in 1066 provoked fierce revolts, notably in York ...
leading to the Norman Conquest in 1066. She died in 1052. King Cnut the Great - King of England, Denmark and Norway. A Danish prince, he won the throne of England in 1016 in the wake of centuries ...
The small lead bundle is barely bigger than a Cornish pasty and has been affectionately nicknamed "the pasty" by the ...
The death of Edward the Confessor in 1066 set off a year of turmoil in England. Three different people believed that they were entitled to the English throne. The Battle of Hastings The Battle of ...