Introduced in the wake of the Norman Conquest, the murdrum fine was meant to protect Norman settlers from revenge killings.

Archaeologists from Cardiff University and the University of Sheffield have combined the latest scientific methods to offer new insights into life during the Norman Conquest of England. Until now, the ...

The Norman Conquest of 1066 did little to change the English diet — but pork did become more popular in its aftermath, archaeologists have discovered. Researchers from Bristol, Cardiff and Sheffield ...

Those who love history for its action and drama will take special pleasure from Marc Morris' The Norman Conquest, a highly readable account of the events that led up to and followed the defeat of the ...

The Francophone Normans conquered Wales by a process of raids and colonisation over two centuries. It was their English-speaking followers who brought their language to everyday Welsh life. The Battle ...

Britain appears to be a nation on the verge of Norman-conquest mania. In July, the prime minister and the French president announced that the Bayeux tapestry – the epic 11th-century embroidery that ...

In 1066, following the Battle of Hastings, the anonymous author of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle famously wrote that the Normans ‘stayed behind… and distressed the wretched folk, and always after that it ...