The Battle of Hastings gave the throne of England to William the Conqueror . The Norman king had been preparing for the invasion of England for several months and, between September 27 and 28, 1066, he crossed the English Channel, skirted the coast, and landed about six miles from present-day Hastin
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets In the last of the series of posts that we are dedicating in the blog to the conquest of Wales by England (see the posts Edward I of England against Llywelyn Prince of Wales and Edward I, Wales and the Arthurian legends) we had noted that in March 1282 ther
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets In a previous blog entry we had talked about the crossroads that the year 1066 marked in English history. The fate of the country was decided in a few days in three battles:Fulford, where the Norwegians under King Harald Hardradda (supported by Tostig, brot
After the festive arrival of the new regime, a Provisional Government was formed, made up of conservative republicans such as its president, Alcalá-Zamora, centrists, such as Lerroux (Minister of State), or leftists, such as Azaña (Minister of War), even socialists like Francisco Largo Caballero (Wo