What happened in 1066? Why was Duke William important? What was the Battle of Hastings? How do we know what happened? Edward 'the Confessor' was an important Anglo-Saxon king. He didn't have any ...

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

The Normans introduced castles, revolutionizing England’s military and social structures. The word “castle” itself first appeared in English records in 1051, when foreign builders erected a ...

In 1066 there were two invasions of England, a Viking and a Norman invasion. The Vikings were defeated but the Normans succeeded in conquering England, bringing to an end Anglo-Saxon England.

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...