The Secrets of History’s Most Famous Embroidery Hidden in Plain Sight The story of the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry is arguably the most widely-known in the entire panoply of English history, and over the last 200 years there have been hundreds of books portraying the Tapestry […]
The 1066 Norman Bruisers The 1066 Norman Bruisers conjures up the vanished world of England in the late Middle Ages and casts light on one of the strangest quirks in the nation’s history: how a bunch of European thugs became the quintessentially English gentry. In 1066 go-getting young immigrant Osbern Fitz-Tezzo crossed the Channel in […]
With our upcoming Viking combat school next year, I thought it would be a great idea over the next few months to read as much as possible on the Vikings, their combat techniques, and weaponry. One of the latest books, I received to review was the Vikings at War book. This is a meaty tome […]
I was keen to read this book as I have followed Daniele on Twitter and also read her 5 Minute Medievalist. Her writing is easy to read and almost like we are chatting. I find this much easier to learn stuff. So Life in Medieval Europe isn’t just long chronological history of the period but […]