Battle of Hastings

The Battle of Hastings was a clash of Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and Scandinavian civilizations.

Lust for Glory Bloch, R. Howard 2003

Those readers who grasp irritably after facts will be reassured to learn that Professor Adams's story of the Battle of Hastings is a sketch derived from a fifteen-volume history, not a cartoon derived from a cartoon.

Royalty and Genius Adams, Robert M. 1984

[4] In the same way, Ordericus Vitalis represents William the Conqueror to have said in his last moments, when reviewing his life, that he fought against Harold (meaning what English historians call the Battle of Hastings — a name never given to that battle by the Normans) _in

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

The show on the Battle of Hastings, when the Normans conquered the English in 1066, considers the dexterity of a battle ax and analyzes tapestries and salt-marsh grasses.

TV on DVD 2012

John Stuart Mill famously deemed Marathon more important "even as an event in English [not" British, "as Mr. Billows has it] history" than the Battle of Hastings (1066 and all that).

A Battle of Long-Running Interest Paul Cartledge 2010

You know, the folks who swear they haven't' watched TV or seen a movie in years, sew their own deliberately ugly dresses, and who grow heirloom tomatoes and for fun reenact the Battle of Hastings in the back yard with their perfectly perfect kids.

Archive 2009-07-01 Dymphna 2009

You know, the folks who swear they haven't' watched TV or seen a movie in years, sew their own deliberately ugly dresses, and who grow heirloom tomatoes and for fun reenact the Battle of Hastings in the back yard with their perfectly perfect kids.

i noticed an odd thing this week Dymphna 2009

As every schoolboy used to know, this was the year of the Battle of Hastings.

1066 votes, and all that 2008

Brown could now be coming straight out of his Battle of Hastings and straight into the bloodiest scenes out of Braveheart.

1066 votes, and all that 2008

As every schoolboy used to know, this was the year of the Battle of Hastings.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008