Mr Grehan, from Shoreham, West Sussex, has made his arguments in a book called The Battle of Hastings – The Uncomfortable Truth, to be published in January. He added: ‘Two days after the ...

References to this ancient, bloody and desperate episode run throughout the book. Partitioned into ... Towards the end of My Battle of Hastings she writes: “This is my second year in Hastings.

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 ...

But fighting in the Battle of Hastings, more than 700 years before his birth, was not one of them. So the good people of Battle, where William the Conqueror beat King Harold in 1066, were ...

On October 14, 1066, Harold Godwinson, the last AngloSaxon king of England, and most of his army were hacked down near Hastings ... the embroidery record of the battle, which is available online ...