As Viking warlords carved kingdoms from English soil, the House of Wessex stood defiant. What began with Alfred would become a fight to forge a nation.

History documentary dealing with the origins of the British monarchy amid the Anglo-Saxon / Viking wars of early medieval England. Today, the United Kingdom is among the world’s most celebrated ...

Indeed, by 1077 the Tapestry had arrived in Normandy, and was displayed at Bayeux Cathedral. It has remained in France ever since, although it may have had a narrow escape during the French Revolution ...

xiii, 330 pages : 24 cm Includes bibliographical references and index Memories and myths of the Norman conquest -- The proliferation of documents -- Types of records -- The technology of writing -- ...

The Nazis’ obsession with European art should be understood as central to Hitler’s genocidal regime and its efforts toward ...

LONDON — France will lend Britain the Bayeux Tapestry, allowing the 11th century masterpiece to come back across the Channel for the first time in more than 900 years. Britain will in exchange loan ...

The 230-foot-long embroidered textile, which narrates the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century, will be on display at the British Museum next September.