The Battle of Hastings in 1066 was the decisive event in the conquest of Saxon England. Within a year, the Normans were ...

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 ...

Most people would have learned about the Norman Invasion of Ireland back at the end of primary school, or the start of secondary school. So, the details might be somewhat hazy in your mind ...

Although the Norman invasion had its most pronounced effect in England, it also changed the course of Welsh history.

“The realization that the 2006 excavations had found, in effect, an Anglo-Saxon en-suite confirmed to us that this house sits on the site of an elite residence pre-dating the Norman Conquest,” said ...

This castle is the second biggest castle in the UK and the largest castle in Wales! The castle was built in 1268 under orders from the Anglo-Norman Lord ... 1646. An invasion of 7,400 men took ...

The findings were recently published in The Antiquaries Journal. “The Norman Conquest saw a new ruling class supplant an English aristocracy that has left little in the way of physical remains ...

Norman Wirzba pursues research and teaching interests at the intersections of theology, philosophy, ecology, and agrarian and environmental studies. He lectures frequently in Canada, the United States ...

The Norman conquest of 1066 transformed England ... This topic appears in OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC KS4/GCSE in England and Wales, CCEA GCSE in Northern Ireland and SQA National 4/5 in Scotland.