Edward the Confessor
The horror that emerges from the columns of Domesday Book
William the Conqueror’s Great Inquest codified one of the most ruthless land grabs in history, with the obliteration of 5,000 Saxon noblemen and the collective punishment of England’s native peoples
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’
What did the Romans ever do for London?
When Bishop Guy of Amiens looked across the Channel in the 11th century he saw ‘teeming London [which] shines bright.…
