Welcome to the Blog!
Welcome to my Blog! Hi, Just a quick entry to welcome you to the blog and reassure you that it is still active despite the last post being last year (2024). As you can see from the landing page this blog goes back intermittently to 2015. In it you can trace my thinking from when I had only a copy of the Bayeux Tapestry right through to when I have authoritative translations of most 11th and 12th cent. sources. The article that Nick ( of Hastings Online Times fame) wrote is based on a paper ( with minor adjustments) that can be read on Academia. A version of that paper appears on this blog in four parts dated 18/19 July 2024. In between looking at the Battle of Hastings I have researched Edward the Confessor's life and that of his Mum, Emma of Normandy and come up with five after adding two plus two (Edward had been swapped out in 1025 and his Mum was a conniving but strong so and so). I shall continue to post bits and pieces but most of what I ...