News Roundup - The 950th Anniversary of the Battle of Hastings

How the anniversary celebrations and the re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings at Battle Abbey was reported in the media... [ View the sto...

Trying to find Harold, reading the Magna Carta, and going 3D: Medieval News Roundup

This week we take a look at some stories about the search for King Harold (sigh), some interesting medieval archaeological discoveries, and ...

Is this how the Bayeux Tapestry would have ended?

The Alderney Bayeux Tapestry The famous Bayeux Tapestry ends with the defeat of King Harold's army and the flight of the Anglo-Saxon sol...

One in the eye for history: experts still fighting over the site of the Battle of Hastings

It is the most famous battle in British history, fought, as every schoolboy knows, in 1066 at a site now marked by Battle Abbey, near the to...