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N. J. Higham.
The Norman Conquest.

Published Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998.
Series: Sutton Pocket Histories.
ISBN 0750919531.
ISBN-13: 9780750919531.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Guernsey Press, Channel Islands .
Size: 126×197×10mm.
Page count: x,118pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the covers on this copy are a bit scuffed, noticeable but not severe; pages somewhat yellowed with age; in other respects doesn’t look heavily used, the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears ot be free of marking.


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Weight without packaging: 145g.

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Everyone knows the date 1066, but what actually happened, and why? What were the consequences, and how did it change the course of history? Nick Higham sketches the turbulent background to the brief reign of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon king, and the unsatisfactory resolution to Edward the Confessor’s childlessness, and shows that after William the Conqueror took control, the Vikings and Normans continued to struggle for control of England right up to William’s death in 1087.

Contents: An improbable king; England, the Vikings & the Normans; Edward the Confessor; An heir to King Edward; 1066; Conquest consolidated; Revolt & its suppression in the north; Troubled kingship; William, Domesday & the Danes 1985-7; Conquest in retrospect.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: 1

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: 1
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 5pp
Index: yes

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