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A scene depicted on the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry.

Bayeux Tapestry to be loaned to the UK: historians react . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The charging Norman cavalry shown in glorious technicolour at the battle of Hastings in this masterpiece of storytelling. (Art Archive)

How English is the Bayeux Tapestry?

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England’s Norman queens and the power they wielded: an interview with Alison Weir

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William Marshal: the greatest knight . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Getting the history right on ‘1066: A Year to Conquer England’

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The Celts: unpicking the mystery

Giuseppe Garibaldi in Naples, Italy, 1861. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

God, gangs and Garibaldi

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Bleddyn ap Cynfyn: the first Prince of Wales?

Section of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting a woman and child fleeing from a burning house. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The Anglo-Saxons’ last stand

Pevensey Castle, England. First fortified by the Romans, William the Conqueror famously landed his army there in 1066 and a Norman castle was developed during the century after the Norman Conquest. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

The Library Q&A: How did the Normans learn to build castles?

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The secrets of 6 of Britain’s most famous castles – with Dan Jones

The Harrying of the North. Gouache on paper, by Patrick Nicolle (1907–95). Private collection. (© Look and Learn/Bridgeman Images)

Occupation, resistance, subjugation: the bloody aftermath of 1066

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The 1016 Danish Conquest that led to the battle of Hastings

Battle of Hastings. (Neil Holmes/Getty Images)

Q&A: If the battle of Hastings had never taken place, would British history have been any different?

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The Norman Conquest . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.