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 ...

He raided the east coast, burning Scarborough, then sailed up the Humber river. Harold II met William of Normandy near Hastings. The two armies were evenly matched in numbers, but Harold's men ...

The duchy of Normandy came into existence in AD 911 as the result of settlement of the lower Seine Valley in northern France by Northmen or Vikings. With its energetic inhabitants and its well ...