Anglo-Saxons are recognised by their moustaches. Normans by their hair, cropped aggressively short at the back. The more you look at the tapestry, the more sophisticated it appears. To take a ...

Anglo-Saxon rule came to an end in 1066 ... Harold was defeated by the Normans at the Battle of Hastings in October 1066, and thus a new era was ushered in.

William’s victory at Hastings marked the end of Anglo-Saxon rule and the beginning of Norman dominance in England. Harold’s body, mutilated and unrecognizable, was reportedly buried near the ...

But it is the six centuries of Anglo-Saxon rule, from shortly after the departure of the Roman colonizers, around A.D. 410, to the Norman Conquest in 1066, that most define what we now call England.