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

The succession crisis that followed presented Edward with a golden opportunity to expand on his conquest of Wales. The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which ...

North Wales has no shortage of castles. From Flint to Harlech the notorious English King, Edward I had to build a chain of fortifications to complete his conquest of Wales. Some 700 years on these ...

The conquest started with a series ... In December 1282, the last native Prince of Wales, Llewellyn the Last, died at the hands of Edward I's forces. The Welsh had not experienced anything like ...

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 ...