Monthly Archives: June 2016

Tostig and Copsig’s Further Adventures

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When these two get together anything can happen.

Already expelled from Northumbria in 1065 for excessive cruelty, they and their band of trained hooligans are now trying to make their mark on Euro 1066.

The authorities are aware of their travel plans and plan to nip any trouble in the bud.

 

Saxon Times May 1066

May’s edition of The Saxon Times republished

 

Excerpts from The Saxon Times will be available from 10th July 2016 in A3 format suitable for wall display. Visit www.1066thesaxontimes.com and www.1066haroldsway.co.uk for more information

The Saxon Times is set for publication 1st September 2016 by Bretwalda Books as an A4 paperback and will be available nationally.

The Saxon Times is on Display

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Our next exhibition from 16th June will be ‘The Saxon Times’.

‘The newspaper is a look at how the events of 1066 may have been reported and records eye witness reports of the events surrounding the death of Edward the Confessor, the coronation of King Harold II, the events that led to the Battle of Hastings, 14th October 1066 and the subsequent conquest of England through the eyes of The Saxon Times reporters’.

The book is due to be published in August 2016 and promises a fascinating view into this most important period of the nation’s history. This is the work of David Clarke, who some of you will have heard talk on ‘Harold’s Way’ last year. David has also produced a series of walk booklets in and around Hastings and St Leonards which are stocked at the History House. We are grateful to David for the loan of the exhibition.

http://www.ohps.org.uk

www.1066thesaxontimes.com

The Saxon Times Exhibition, Hastings

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The Saxon Times will be on display from 16th June to 26th July 2016 at:

Hastings History House

21 Courthouse Street, Hastings. TN34 3AU

Telephone: 01424 424 744

Thursdays to Sundays 11-4

www.ohps.org.uk

The exhibition will cover period from the Consecration of the new West Minster Abbey, 28th December 1065 to the end of July 1066 and includes the coronation of Harold Godwinson,  Hailey’s Comet, the treacherous Tostig, the preparations for war and much much more with eye witness reports of all the major events.

The final months of that tumultuous year, that includes the Battle of Hastings and the coronation of Duke William, will be on display from 4th September 2016.

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The complete paperback edition of The Saxon Times is set for publication by Bretwalda Books during August 2016 and will be available nationally in all good bookshops and through the internet.

A full mail order facility for the purchase of individual and/or sets of issues will be available shortly at:

www.1066haroldsway.co.uk