After 28 years of business and 13 years without her husband’s partnership, Jeannette says it’s time to close Stormin’ ...

Matthew Reid: It’s 8:30 in the morning. We’re in Prague. The large frightening man behind the bar stands with his arms crossed watching the only two drunk idiots in the tiny smoke filled watering hole ...

Young Robin of Locksley isn’t the only one getting a reimagining. The villainous Sheriff of Nottingham also receives a fresh take, with Bean stepping into the role and bringing new depth to the ...

The Normans became masters of England, a centralised kingdom, in a matter of a few years. Wales, far more decentralized than England, proved resistant to the Normans' power. During the reign of ...

This documentary explores the incredible story of Rollo, the Norse warrior who laid the foundations of Normandy in medieval France. As the Carolingian Empire crumbled, Viking raiders became ...

In a new season on BBC Two and BBC Four, get to know your ancestors - the Normans. Professor Robert Bartlett tells the story of the Normans in northern Europe between the 10th and 13th Centuries and ...

For many years, a Viking host led by a charismatic brigand, Rollo, had been pillaging up and down the Seine. But when he overextended himself with an attack on the cathedral city of Chartres in 911, ...

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The BBC is to provide viewers with a definitive look at a seminal period of history, the resonances of which can still be felt today, in a season focusing on the Normans across BBC Two, BBC Four and ...

Every so often the cry goes up for the overhaul and reform of the UK tax system, Gary Stevenson’s being the latest (“The trader who turned his back on the City”, Spectrum, Life & Arts, March 2).

1066. Mention that year to pretty much anyone educated in Britain during the last couple of hundred years and they'll tell you exactly what it means, but here are the headlines: Edward the Confessor ...