1066: The Battle of Hastings (TRIH ep 556, part 3)
1066 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the build-up, conduct and contested details of the Battle of Hastings (14 October 1066). They review contemporary sources—the Carmen (Song of the Battle of Hastings), William of Poitiers and the Bayeux Tapestry—and weigh their reliability.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1066
- First Crusade (1096)
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- East–West Schism (1054)
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Crusades (1095)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
- Capture of Jerusalem by First Crusade (1099)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)