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Showing posts with label Battle of Hastings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Battle of Hastings. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Book Spotlight: Harold The King (UK) / I Am The Chosen King (USA/Canada) (same book – different titles) by Helen Hollick

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  First published in 2000 – Celebrating a Silver Anniversary! The events that led to the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest of Engla...
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Friday, June 24, 2022

The Briton and the Dane: Timeline - character interview with Dr. Gwyneth Franger

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  An Interview with  Dr. Gwyneth Franger Commentator (C):  Thank you for agreeing to this interview, Dr. Franger. Gwyneth (G): Please call m...
Monday, April 27, 2020

The Briton and the Dane: Timeline by Mary Ann Bernal

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Dr. Gwyneth Franger is a renowned expert in early medieval England who is set upon learning the truth about the death of Lord Erik, t...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Occupation, resistance, subjugation: the bloody aftermath of 1066

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History Extra The Harrying of the North. Gouache on paper, by Patrick Nicolle (1907–95). Private collection. (© Look and Learn/Bridg...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The 1016 Danish Conquest that led to the battle of Hastings

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History Extra Following the battle of Maldon in AD 991, Æthelred’s court paid the Vikings to leave in the form of Danegeld. (Chronicl...
Monday, January 25, 2016

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Anglo-Saxons

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History Extra Edward The Confessor, Anglo-Saxon king of England. From the Bayeux Tapestry, which tells the story of the events leadin...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

History Trivia - Battle of Hastings - William the Conqueror defeats England's Harold II

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October 14 1066 Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of Wi...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Cnut's invasion of England: setting the scene for the Norman conquest

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  History Extra       The 1066 battle of Hastings is one of the most famous dates in medieval history. But it is often forgotten...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

History Trivia - William the Conqueror defeats King Harold II of England

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October 14 1066 Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William...
Monday, October 14, 2013

History Trivia - Battle of Hastings - William the Conqueror defeats King Harold Godwinson of England

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October 14 222 Pope Callixtus I was killed by a mob in Rome's Trastevere (west bank of the Tiber River) after a 5-year reign in whic...