The effects of the Norman Conquest on the people and governance of England were immense. The links shown are part of an ongoing attempt to provide background on the topic to both the casual visitor and the serious student.

England 1066 on the eve of the Conquest

The continued resistance of the English to the Normans

The traumatic effect on the English of the Conquest

How the rest of Europe viewed it.

1066 in written & oral traditions

Hereward the Wake - resistance hero

Edric the Wild - resistance hero

The Revolt of the Earls - Anglo Norman Earls against King William

Waltheof - resistance hero

Edgar the Aetheling

"Woden's Wolf" a novel based on the resistance to the Conquest

Norwegian Invasion of 1066

Viking involvement in the Norman Conquest

Stanley Holloway's monalogue on the Battle of Hastings

The Battle of Hastings (Senlac)

The Battle of Hastings

Norman Conquest links

1066 Archive

A man in the middle: Anglo-Norman William Mallett

Map 1066 Invasions

Map 1065

Map 1060

Map 1056

Map 1052

Map 1051

Map 1050

Map 1045

Ruyard Kiplings comments on Normans & Saxons

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