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BATTLE OF STAMFORD BRIDGE 1) PRELUDE In the wake of their triumphant conquest of Fulford, Hardrada and Tostig found themselves in...

The year of 1066 saw three major battles focusing on the struggle between the major contenders for the throne of England.

For the nobles of England, gathered in the great hall of King Edward’s palace on Thorney Island, it must have come as a surprise that...

In 2016 I started a series of posts about the events of 1066 that led to the Battle of Hastings that year on 14 October, 1066. It had...

Wecome to the concluding part of Ælfgyva: The Mystery Lady of the Bayeux Tapestry. Imagine someone wants to tell you some gossip about...

In this final examination of this mystery, I do not aim to prove,what the image of Alfgyva and the priest represents. It would be...

by Paula Lofting For those who have not read any of my earlier posts about this puzzling enigmatic woman, Ælfgyva, whose image is...

The woman in the Bayeux Tapestry called Ælfgyva has given commentators and historians alike, food for thought for as long as the Bayeux...

Blogtober has been a lot of fun for us at @Histwriters and I’ve met a lot of amazing new characters along the way. It wasn’t hard for me...

– I am proud to add my contribution to this year’s wonderful Christmas Blog Hop Event from the Historical Writers Forum. See more...

How Edward Became King Bayeux Tapestry, Scene 1: King Edward the Confessor and Earl Harold. Source: Wikipedia, Creative Commons, Author:...

Ralph de Mantes was the son of King Edward’s sister, Godgifu, known commonly as Goda. Goda was the king’s full sister, therefore a...

October 1055 saw Earl Ralph’s magnificent defeat by the allied forces of Alfgar of Mercia and Gruffudd, self-proclaimed King of Cymru...

So, we have come, finally, to the end of the road that took us on our journey to the Battle of Hastings. By the end of December, William...

“And Earl William went back to Hastings again, and waited there to see if he would be submitted to; but when he realised that no one was...

In London, it was said that the streets were ‘teeming’. There were so many men, survivors of Hastings, and the armies that had been...

And so, the battle culminated in the end of Harold Godwinson’s reign. The Battle of Hastings, as it has largely been referred to,...

In the previous post, the battle had reached a turning point, one that had finally made a dent in the English Shield Wall. We saw...

So in the last part of this post, the battle lines have been drawn. Harold’s army has been marshalled along the top of the ridge at the...

Harold was marshalling his men as the Norman army and their allies, marched along the road from Hastings, into the valley that was slung...