The Battle of Hastings in 1066 was the decisive event in the conquest of Saxon England. Within a year, the Normans were ...

When the Black Death hit London, England in 1348 CE, it began to affect the English language. Due to the class struggle ...

The Francophone Normans conquered Wales by a process of raids and colonisation over two centuries. It was their English-speaking followers who brought their language to everyday Welsh life.

The Conquest of Wales was a traumatic event. When Llywelyn ap Gruffudd was killed in 1282 in a skirmish with the Anglo-Norman army at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, one chronicler wrote that the whole of ...

Sarkese is an archaic variety of the Norman language that arrived in 1565, brought by settlers from nearby Jersey. Almost all ...