BATTLE ABBEY, England -- Thousands of history buffs, many in full costume, marked the 950th anniversary of the 1066 Battle of Hastings with a re-enactment Saturday that commemorated one of the most ...

It hasn’t been Tony Blair’s best year. Foot-and-mouth disease devastating the countryside and tourism. Record flooding. Trains crashing owing to a decrepit rail network. A tax protest that turned off ...

After a hiatus in 2020, the event near Battle Abbey , run by English Heritage, returned ahead of the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. Around 500 performers recreated the conflict between King ...

Hundreds of re-enactors from the UK and France recreated the Battle of Hastings to mark the anniversary of the clash that defined English history. This year's re-enactment of the battle fought on 14 ...

A new drama about the Battle of Hastings starring Happy Valley's James Norton and Game Of Thrones actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has shunned England and shot all its scenes in Iceland. King And Conqueror ...

If you’ve been a schoolchild in Britain over the past half-century, you’d be forgiven for believing our nation’s history exists only in four key moments: the Second World War, the industrial ...