Warfare in Six Campaigns across a Thousand Years. In The Shape of Battle, Allan Mallinson examines six particular battles which hold a personal connection to him: Hastings, Towton, Waterloo, Sword ...

My Battle of Hastings: Chronicle of A Year By the Sea by Xiaolu Guo Chatto & Windus £18.99, 208 pages. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Caf ...

A book argues that the village and its surrounding fields was the real site of the Battle of Hastings, which placed a foreign ruler on England's throne and, many historians attest, led to the ...

It’s rare that a single event transforms a nation’s entire identity, but that’s what happened with the Battle of Hastings in 1066. At the end of this bloody, one-day battle, Anglo-Saxon ...

My Battle of Hastings Xiaolu Guo In the winter of 2021, Guo bought a tiny flat on the Hastings seafront, a room of her own where she could spend time writing away from her duties as wife and ...

What was the most important battle in English history? If you answered the Battle of Hastings, the 1066 A.D. conflict in which the Normans successfully took over the English crown, you’re not alone.

Well, there is – with our Game of Thrones or Battle of Hastings quiz. We’ve selected 10 statements about Robert’s Rebellion, the battle that sets the wheels in motion for Game Of Thrones ...

Music: Battle of Hastings; Music: Battle of Hastings. 2 minute read. TIME. October 2, 1939 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... In the provincial English beach-resort town of Hastings, ...

Hastings was Governor of Bengal from 1772 and 1774, and Governor-General of India for a further 10 years. His achievements during that period were considerable.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What is it about an English seaside town that is such a draw for artists and writers? Think Tracey Emin’s ...