We all remember 1066 from our school days, The Battle of Hastings 1066 etched in our memory and is a date that changed the course of history.

But what about the rest of the year.

Three Kings and the three battles still hit the headlines but what else was in the news for 1066.

In February, at the Council of Rouen, Duke William ‘persuaded’ his Earls that the Conquest of England would be a noble thing and promised them wealth and power beyond their dreams.

In April and May, a great comet appeared in the night sky casting doom in England but seen in France as an endorsement of Duke William’s Holy War.

Brother Ealdred answers reader’s letters and offers a wide variety of cures for dozens of medical problems and Brother Deorwine offers the latest on Norman menus and recipes.

The fyrd trained along the south coast and ships were built in Normandy and elsewhere, everyday life went on. Mystery surrounds the body of King Harold after the Battle of Hastings and the reason why did Duke William took such a long march to London was on everyone’s lips.

The Saxon Times starts at the consecration of West Minster Abbey, in December 1065, and ends on New Year’s Eve 1066 with the new King ‘hiding’ in a nunnery in Barking.

Imagine if all the events of that epic and tumultuous year were reported as they happened in a contemporary English Newspaper. The Saxon Times is a look at how the events of 1066 unfolded and takes a very different look at 1066 through the eyes of The Saxon Times reporters.

​​The Saxon Times is an historically accurate resource that has been written to inform and entertain and has been much commended for its unique view of life in 1066 and the events that changed England forever with The Norman Conquest. .

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