Friday 14 October 2016

Battle of Hastings - 950th Anniversary

Royal Doulton 'Bayeux Tapestry' Rack Plate c1911

The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England. The sequence of events depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry were used by Royal Doulton in 1907 to produce a series of wares, now highly collectable.

English axman in combat with Norman cavalry during the Battle of Hastings



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