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Following King Harold Godwinson’s climactic victory at the Battle of Stanford Bridge, and the death of Harald Hardrada, what did he do when news reached him that William of Normandy’s army had landed...
· 59 min 1 sec
In the tumultuous climax of 1066, why was Harold’s very own brother Tostig the first of the mighty foes he had to face? How did Harald Hardrada then launch his invasion of England, and how much resist...
· 1 hr 10 min 27 sec
Why is 1066 the most important year in English history? Who were the three main candidates vying for the English throne on the eve of Edward the Confessor’s death? And how did the coronation of one of...
· 1 hr 2 min 9 sec
Harald Hardrada; exiled prince of Norway and mercenary, has landed in the greatest city on Earth: Constantinople. There he joins one of the most prestigious military organisations in the world, the Va...
· 1 hr 6 min 25 sec
“I swear I will not flee from this fight. I will triumph, or I will die!”In the 1066 game of thrones for the crown of England, the most extraordinary of the three contenders is arguably Harald Hardrad...
· 1 hr 3 min 28 sec
In the triumvirate of 1066, William of Normandy, Harald Hardrada, and Harold Godwinson, the latter has above all endured as one of the great heroes of English history. But how did he become the short-...
· 1 hr 1 min 33 sec
Born into a world of treachery, violence and death, William of Normandy defied all expectations, forging a legacy that lasts to this day. Born out of wedlock and dismissed as an upstart, he was origin...
· 59 min 42 sec
Following the bloody St Brice’s Day Massacre, of the 13th of November 1002, which saw King Æthelred brutally exterminating the Danes from England, the Vikings were hungry for revenge. None more so tha...
· 1 hr 5 min 36 sec
The Norman Conquest of 1066, culminating in the legendary Battle of Hastings, is perhaps the greatest turning point in the history of the English nation. It was a year that changed the fate of England...
· 1 hr 5 sec
The second revolution that engulfed France over the course of 1792 reached its climax in December, with an astonishing, world-changing spectacle, which held all the eyes of Europe spellbound: Louis Ca...
· 1 hr 3 min 55 sec
“From this place and from this day forth commences a new era in the world’s history, and you can all say you were present at its birth!”By September 1792, the Prussians, under the leadership of the fo...
· 1 hr 2 min 6 sec
In the summer and Autumn of 1792 - with the Prussians bearing down on Paris, the streets thronged with the stirring swell of the Marseillaise, but also the rotting bodies of those brutally killed duri...
· 1 hr 1 min 35 sec
‘Still more traitors, still more treason…"It is 1792 and France has been at war since April; it is not going well. In Paris, the Tuileries Palace has been stormed, and the royal family imprisoned. Mea...
· 1 hr 2 min 14 sec
“Anyone who even thinks of abandoning this mission will be cut up into a thousand pieces…I am the wrath of God!”At the height of the age of exploration, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, o...
· 1 hr 9 min 57 sec
In Tudor England, during the reign of Elizabeth I, there lived in the very heart of her court a magician, alchemist and polymath, bent upon conversing with the angels of heaven and other supernatural...
· 1 hr 5 min 18 sec
“The horror! The horror!”Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ - the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's ‘Apocalypse Now’ - is one of the most celebrated literary works of all time, though now increa...
· 1 hr 16 min 41 sec
Exposing the dark pit of human suffering, cruelty and corruption that had long been secretly festering in King Leopold’s Congo, would reveal one of the greatest abuses of human rights in all history,...
· 1 hr 6 min 5 sec
“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”.In 1885 King Leopold of Belgium; an awkward, ruthless, selfish man, was recognised as the sovereign of the Congo. Long determined to carve...
· 1 hr 59 sec
The story of King Leopold of Belgium’s brutal regime in the Congo Free State, during the late 19th century, is one of the darkest and most important in global history. It is a story of horror - the mu...
· 1 hr 5 min 20 sec