Battle of Stamford Bridge Re-enactment 2013
Photograph - Reenactment
A photograph of the re-enactment of the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 2013
R Dale
R Dale
R Dale
25/09/2016
Karen Holgate
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StillImage
Modern, Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire, England
Podcast - In Our Time: The Battle of Stamford Bridge
Radio programme
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011jvlt
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Stamford Bridge.In the first week of 1066 the English king, Edward the Confessor, died. A young nobleman, Harold Godwinson, claimed that Edward had nominated him his successor, and seized the throne. But he was not the only claimant: in France the powerful Duke of Normandy, William, believed that he was the rightful king, and prepared to invade England.As William amassed his forces on the other side of the Channel, however, an army led by the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada invaded from the North Sea. Harold quickly marched north and confronted the Norsemen, whose leaders included his own brother Tostig. The English won an emphatic victory; but barely three weeks later Harold was dead, killed at Hastings, and the Norman Conquest had begun.With: John Hines, Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University, Elizabeth Rowe, Lecturer in Scandinavian History of the Viking Age at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Stephen Baxter, Reader in Medieval History at King's College London
Producer: Thomas Morris.
BBC
BBC
BBC
02/06/2011
R Dale
BBC
mp3
English
Sound
Modern, Viking Age
Battle of Stamford Bridge Memorial
Memorial Stone
Memorial stone and plaque for the Battle of Stamford Bridge in the centre of Stamford Bridge village
RDale
RDale
RDale
17/05/2016
RDale
RDale
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StillImage
Modern, Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire, England
Stamford Bridge Information Board
Information Board
On Viking Road there is an information board about the Battle of Stamford Bridge
RDale
RDale
RDale
17/05/2016
RDale
RDale
jpg
English
StillImage
Modern, Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire, England