The States is calling for ideas to help mark Europe-wide celebrations of Norman culture and heritage in 2027. It said the island would be part of a year-long cultural programme called 2027 European ...

Matthew Reid: It’s 8:30 in the morning. We’re in Prague. The large frightening man behind the bar stands with his arms crossed watching the only two drunk idiots in the tiny smoke filled watering hole ...

The Government has announced that it intends to participate in an international year in 2027 to celebrate Norman culture and the 1,000th anniversary of the birth of William the Conqueror. Minister for ...

She was born into a Viking noble family, inherited vast estates in East Anglia, and became the lifelong partner of the man who would become the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. The Church refused to ...

The Normans became masters of England, a centralised kingdom, in a matter of a few years. Wales, far more decentralized than England, proved resistant to the Normans' power. During the reign of ...

In a new season on BBC Two and BBC Four, get to know your ancestors - the Normans. Professor Robert Bartlett tells the story of the Normans in northern Europe between the 10th and 13th Centuries and ...

A NEW drama-documentary series, 1066: A Year to Conquer England, is coming soon to BBC Two. The show will explore the political intrigues and family betrayals that led to war. The Anglo-Saxons are a ...

Three years ago when Chris Hayes was hired as park manager for the National Heritage Park in Wexford he learned that beyond all the meticulously reconstructed crannogs and ring forts, up on the Hill ...

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