Norman

Robert Curthose invaded England on July 21st, 1101.

Bruce Campbell argues that a unique conjunction of human and environmental factors went into creating the crisis of the mid-14th century.

Emma Mason argues that rising population brought a surprising degree of movement, politically, geographically and socially.

The editor of the Evening Standard reflects on the romantic roots of his interest in history.

Brian Golding looks at life under the Norman Yoke during the consolidating reign of Henry I.

Michael Camille shows how the marginal illustrations of a 14th-century psalter became some of our most familiar images of everyday life in medieval England.

Elizabeth van Houts reconstructs memories of occupation (with echoes of the 1940s) from post-Norman conquest chronicles.

Geoffrey Clarke on netting the Poll Tax in Hastings.

Cultural cataclysm or merely a modification of an Anglo-Saxon status quo? Antonia Gransden looks at views, past and present, of the Norman conquest.