On 14th October 1066 much of the English aristocracy fell on Senlac Hill near Hastings.
This is the battle that people think of when considering British history in 1066, but as the last two blogs intimate, a lot of back-story led to the defeat of King Harold Godwinson by the Norman French, not least of which was the weather. How different Mediaeval England might have been if the 'fair wind' had
Published on October 14, 2012 00:00