Millionaire spooked from mansion Sep 22, 2008
Clifton Hall dates back to the Norman conquest ... He and his wife Nabila, 25, moved into Clifton Hall - which dates back to the Norman conquest - with their daughters, aged seven, five and three, and 18-month-old son. (BBC News)
Family abandon their 'haunted' dream home Sep 22, 2008
With a history dating back to the time of the Norman conquest, spectacular views over the Trent, 17 bedrooms, a private gym and its own cinema, Clifton Hall appeared to have everything for the discerning millionaire purchaser. But for Anwar Rashid and his family, the Nottinghamshire pile went from home of their dreams to a house of nightmares as they came to believe it was haunted. (Independent)
Essentials: This weekend's live music picks Sep 19, 2008
Today @ the Luggage Store: The festival of found and homemade instruments kicks off with performances by Chris Brown, the Norman Conquest and the Wreck of the Old # 10. 8 p.m., $10-$15, all ages. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tourists' most embarrassing questions revealed by English Heritage Aug 12, 2008
One young girl gazed at Clifford's Tower, in York - built after the Norman Conquest - and asked her guide: "Is this a bouncy castle?". Children at other sites have made amusing errors, such as at Cleeve Abbey in Somerset, where one group were told to look out for monks when what they had hoped to see were monkeys. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Brit beer sales at lowest level since Depression Jul 29, 2008
More than 1,400 pubs called last orders for the final time in 2007 and the Campaign for Real Ale claims that more than half Britain's villages are "dry" for the first time since the Norman Conquest of 1066. BBPA chief executive Rob Hayward urged the government to rethink the heavy taxes on alcohol, accounting for some 90 million pounds (around US$180 million) of revenue each year, which the industry blames in large part for its woes. (MSNBC -- Business)
At Britain's fading pubs, the pint is half empty Jul 29, 2008
The campaign says more than half of British villages are dry for the first time since the Norman Conquest of 1066. But how can it be. (News & Observer)
Norman conquest on cards at blowy Birkdale Jul 21, 2008
By Tony Jimenez REUTERS. 1:02 p.m. July 19, 2008. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Sports)
The Queen and I ... Jun 17, 2008
He points out that there have been only 40 British monarchs since the Norman conquest (give or take a disputed few), while there are countries that have had that many governments since the end of the Second World War. While Mr. Hardman may not have set out to answer the question of the monarchy's value for money, it is inescapable, especially in these market-obsessed times. (Globe and Mail)
Breakthough for experts trying to find the Suffolk "Atlantis" Jun 8, 2008
By 1086, just 20 years after the Norman conquest, Dunwich was a thriving town of 3,000 people. It had six parish churches with at least two other chapels. (BBC News -- UK)
Marshfield Pastimes -- Paper remembers early settlers in Marshfield Jun 5, 2008
The first mention of the family in England was after the Norman Conquest (1066) when John of Paul Holm is mentioned. In 1152, Oliver of Paul Holm was knighted by King Stephen for efficiency as Comptroller of the Royal Treasury. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
Welcome to England: fat, obssessive and TV-addicted May 9, 2008
Social inequality is rife, too, as "a tiny aristocracy, who in some cases trace their roots to the Norman Conquest of the eleventh century, still own most of the land" and there is an attack on creeping materialism. The guide also rails against "identikit" provincial towns and "overpriced, under-funded public transport". (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Queen Elizabeth II Marks 82nd Birthday Apr 22, 2008
She is one of only five kings or queens since the 1066 Norman Conquest to reign for more than half a century. Far away from the fanfare, it's believed her Majesty's planning to enjoy a quiet dinner at Windsor Castle, reports CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Queen celebrates 82nd birthday Apr 22, 2008
She is one of only five kings or queens since the 1066 Norman Conquest to reign for more than half a century. Recommend this article. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Can we have a word? Apr 19, 2008
The Norse element in English (which includes words such as husband, muck and window) is the result of the Viking invasions that began in the eighth century; a much larger element, from French, started to come in with the Norman conquest. This is hardly a revelation, and neither is it surprising that English assimilated so many words from Indian languages - bungalow, pyjamas, guru, pariah - given the two centuries of British rule in India. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
In Oxford, with a pub crawl through the centuries Apr 15, 2008
A few years ago, The Guardian reported that for the first time since the Norman Conquest fewer than half the villages of England have a pub. Chains of horrendous corporate-owned "vertical drinking establishments" giant Identikit bars threaten the real pubs, and the real pubs are mostly owned by equally horrendous "pubcos," companies invented to dodge laws against brewing monopolies. Yet somehow real ale, championed by Camra (the Campaign for Real Ale), and real pubs do survive. (International Herald Tribune)
Does 'misspeak' mean lying? Mar 27, 2008
"It goes back to the Old English period before the Norman Conquest to mean to murmur or grumble. "But it's got quite a wide sense of meanings, to speak insultingly or improperly or to speak disparagingly or disrespectfully or to speak evil of. Then in the mid to late Middle Ages, it was to pronounce incorrectly. (BBC News -- UK)
Rugby still rules but it's early days for the A-League Feb 23, 2008
The man who let in those goals was the memorably named goalkeeper Norman Conquest. It wasn't a case of Conquest's inability, rather it was a case of the English attackers thriving in the boggy conditions. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Follow the Reader 2007: The rest of the world, from Bali to Scottish Highlands Dec 31, 2007
The tutor included a field trip that involved a short walk to the "Oxford Mound," an early site that defended Oxford, plus an excursion to Wales that included Chepstow Castle, the oldest parts of which date back to the Norman Conquest of 1066. Classes meet in the morning and finish for lunch. (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Queen Elizabeth is UK's oldest-ever monarch at age 81 Dec 22, 2007
Royal historian Robert Lacey said the milestone would likely bring the queen "some quiet satisfaction.'' "She is a modest person, never one for blowing her own trumpet, and I think that is one of the reasons for her success and longevity," Lacey said. Elizabeth, who took the throne in 1952, is one of only five kings or queens since the 1066 Norman Conquest to reign for more than half a century. Currently the fourth longest-reigning English monarch, she would overtake King Henry III on March 5,... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Queen Elizabeth reaches milestone: oldest ever British monarch Dec 21, 2007
Elizabeth, who took the throne in 1952, is one of only five kings or queens since the 1066 Norman Conquest to reign for more than half a century. Currently the fourth longest-reigning English monarch, she would overtake King Henry III on March 5 and King George III in 2012. (Boston Globe)
To the manor bought Aug 1, 2007
LORD OF THE MANOR Title arose in feudal system after Norman Conquest Estates of land called manors were still owned by the king But they were handed to the (mostly Norman) lords in return for military service They were all-powerful over the peasants who worked the land Today people can call themselves 'The Lord of the Manor of. but the Passport Agency does not recognise them Chris Eubank is Lord of the Manor of Brighton. (BBC News -- UK)
"Devil Possessions" Swept England After Invasion, Study Suggests Jul 28, 2007
"As an imported and learned series of behaviors, demon possession did not seem to 'take' in England, for the most part, prior to the Norman Conquest," Dendle said. Demonic Upsurge. (National Geographic)
Royal returnsThe Crown Estate dating back to 1066 is now a property goliath Jul 12, 2007
The Crown Estate is no ordinary institution, its origins dating back to the Norman Conquest when William I took possession of all land in England "in right of the Crown". Although the size and value of the sovereign's hereditary possessions have fluctuated considerably over the last 900 years - as have the uses to which they have been put - the estate has remained intact. (BBC News -- UK)
Cheeky history lesson: It's not always good to be king Jun 26, 2007
Nearly 1,000 years and 40 monarchs since the Norman conquest 10 centuries of fools, thugs, freaks and lunatics, fratricidal wars and regicidal revolutions, marriages and divorces, babies and bastards, tragedies and traumas republicanism (small r) in modern Britain is only slightly less marginalized that the Flat Earth Society, writes Paxman, a sort of British Ted Koppel, only way cheekier. "Republicanism, for all its commonsensicalness, remains a hobby like campaigning for phonetic spelling. It... (USA Today -- Life)
London: Epicenter Of Capitalism Jun 4, 2007
Indeed, as a proportion of total population, this is the most significant invasion since the Norman Conquest in 1066. In the past the French have intensely disliked living in London, contrasting it with the delights of Paris. (Forbes)
Profile: Earl of Shaftesbury May 26, 2007
Described by friends as likeable and generous as well as weak and fragile, Lord Shaftesbury, who died aged 66, had a family history which dates back to the Norman Conquest and includes the founder of the Whig Party. Born Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the 10th earl inherited his title from his grandfather at 22 and with it the family seat at Wimborne, Dorset, with its 9,000 acres. (BBC News)
Le vin Anglais est arriv! May 26, 2007
com says that by the time of the Norman conquest, monastic institutions were already growing grapes and making wine. The Domesday survey in the late 11th century recorded vineyards in 46 places in southern England. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Read More... Apr 27, 2007
"Nobody seriously wishes to reverse the results of the Norman Conquest or American independence or to express a passionate protest against these events ... . But plenty of people, who have suffered directly or vicariously from the results of the Bolshevik victory ... desire to register their protest against it, and this takes the form, when they read history, of letting their imagination run riot on all the more agreeable things that might have happened ... . People remember the time when all... (Disinformation)
Trouble in tranquility after Norman conquest Apr 7, 2007
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Greg Norman and girlfriend Chris Evert enjoy lunch at Doyles Restaurant in Watsons Bay last December. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Who says King Alfred burned the cakes? Mar 11, 2007
Over the 200 years that followed, the Viking settlers gradually assimilated into the population, but even after the Norman conquest they maintained contact with Iceland, the Orkneys and mainland Scandinavia. And the pro-Viking stories of the Danelaw period were re-told in the Icelandic sagas. (EurekAlert!)
Norman Conquest: Texas Upends OU Feb 25, 2007
Texas Longhorns Football, Basketball, and Recruiting. Inside Texas is THE source for independent analysis , commentary and reporting on University of Texas football, basketball and baseball. (InsideTexas.com)
If global warming keeps on, what will we rename the SnowyMountains? Feb 9, 2007
As Ben Jonson, in his 1640 English Grammar, points out, it is an unfortunate result of losing the Norman Conquest to French speakers ... In Old English it was sensibly represented a `cw', but the Norman Conquest eventually changed this to follow the French `qu. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
That would have been une catastrophe Jan 16, 2007
The entanglement of our history from the Norman Conquest to the Flanders war graves makes our differences piquant. Fashionable Parisians dress their dogs in le Burberry coats, English dreamers long for Provence. (TimesOnline)
