The Conquest of Wales was a traumatic event. When Llywelyn ap Gruffudd was killed in 1282 in a skirmish with the Anglo-Norman army at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, one chronicler wrote that the whole of ...

For centuries, historians speculated about the final residence of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. The famous Bayeux Tapestry ...

Presenting fresh archaeological evidence, Dr Duncan Wright shares how a team of experts might have found the lost living ...

but still used on a formal level till the XV c. The strong influence of Anglo-Norman dialect of French in this period caused an active borrowing of French vocabulary into Irish. Most of the borrowings ...

Anglo-Saxons are recognised by their moustaches. Normans by their hair, cropped aggressively short at the back. The more you look at the tapestry, the more sophisticated it appears. To take a ...

The lost residence of King Harold, depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, has been found, thanks partly to the previous discovery ...

Explores the 12th-century Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The invasion also affects Europe, as Irish resources fuel conflict between England and France. In 12th-century Ireland, provincial kings ...