Norman Conquest

The horror that emerges from the columns of Domesday Book

5 September 2026 9:00 am

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

England and Norway should unite

11 July 2026 1:13 pm

Tonight, Erling Haaland and Harry Kane should be playing together, not against each other. Partially because Haaland is a Yorkshireman,…

The trauma of conquest

5 March 2022 9:00 am

By any yardstick, the Norman Conquest was a ghastly business. Within two decades, the English aristocracy had been more than…

Anglo-Saxons deserve reparations for the Norman Conquest

13 July 2019 9:00 am

Restorative justice for the victims of colonialism is an idea whose time has come. A few years ago, the Indian…