battle of hastings
Shagger, chancer and oath-breaker – Harold Godwinson had a touch of the Viking about him
But for all his faults he emerges from Tom Licence’s biography, like the blazon on his banner at Hastings, ‘an armed warrior woven in pure gold’
Excruciating: Netflix’s House of Guinness reviewed
First the surprising news: not a single one of the four Guinness siblings in 1868 Dublin is black; and only…
The trauma of conquest
By any yardstick, the Norman Conquest was a ghastly business. Within two decades, the English aristocracy had been more than…
