Author: Peter Rex

Edgar is the youngest son of King Edmund of Wessex. Although he became known as Edgar 'the Peaceable' he ruled England with an iron rod. His strict...

The story of William the Conqueror's first five turbulent years in England and how the British people fiercely rebelled against the new king's rule...

In 1066, the English were conquered by the infamous invader, William the Conqueror. However, this is not the whole story - the English did not roll...

Harold Godwinson was king of England for less than a year and failed to defend England from William the Conqueror's invading Norman army in 1066, a...

So long overshadowed by the historic events that followed his death, this is the story of England's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king; his warlike youth...

After the Norman victory in Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror's oppression of the English led to widespread famine, death and destruction, cu...

In 1066, the English were conquered by the infamous invader, William the Conqueror. However, this is not the whole story - the English did not roll...

The first scholarly biography of the 'lost' Anglo-Saxon king of England. Harold Godwinson was king of England for less than a year and failed to de...

Hereward was a thorn in William the Conqueror's side, the man who led the last stand against the king and engaged his personal hatred. In this book...

After the Norman victory in Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror's oppression of the English led to widespread famine, death and destruction, cu...

Harold Godwinson, King of England, was unable to defend his realm from William the Conqueror’s invading Norman army in 1066. The Normans wreaked ha...

In 1066 the English were conquered by the infamous William the Conqueror. However, the English did not just roll over and die before their oppresso...

Of Franco-Scandinavian descent through his father, Duke Robert ‘the Magnificent’, William the Conqueror is revealed as the brutal and violent produ...

Edward the Confessor was the son of King Aethelred the Unready of the House of Wessex. The family was exiled to Normandy when the Danish invaded En...