In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of ...

Historian Robert Bartlett explains how the Vikings of the 10th Century mixed with the French to create Normandy and transform Europe. Watch the full documentary The Normans on BBC Select.

The duchy of Normandy came into existence in AD 911 as the result of settlement of the lower Seine Valley in northern France by Northmen or Vikings. With its energetic inhabitants and its well ...

The Normans won, King Harold was killed, and William became king. This brought an end to Anglo-Saxon and Viking rule. A new age of Norman rule in England had started.