The most famous year in English history, 1066 witnessed the epic confrontation between William, Duke of Normandy, and King Harold, who, killed by the invading Normans during the Battle of Hastings, ...

Long before Hastings and the crown of England, William the Conqueror was a boy fighting to survive in a violent, divided Normandy. This short documentary reveals how betrayal, assassination attempts, ...

When a royal vessel sank of the coast of Normandy in 1120, it not only claimed hundreds of lives but also set off a ...

What makes 1066 such a pivotal year in the history of Western civilization? How has the meaning of the Norman Conquest been debated and interpreted over time? And how did two weddings-between the ...

Welcome to the newly relaunched History Hit YouTube channel! For our first video we’ve recreated the Battle of Hastings using ...

BBC historical drama King & Conqueror explores the lives of Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy, and the bloody conflict that broke out when they both sought the throne of England. Led by James ...

King and Conqueror is a tale of a conflict that shaped the destiny of a nation - and a continent - for a millennium, tracing the relationship between Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy. Neither ...

Another instalment of the BBC's eight-part historical drama King & Conqueror, starring James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, is about to hit our screens. The historical retelling follows the ...