TROUBLE AHEAD

In the late summer of 1066, English ships patrolling the Channel came across an unknown fleet.

You’d think they would have been suspicious of a crew of strange sailors but the weather was bad and the English, probably keen to get home, simply noted that the sea-goers had very short, cropped hair and assumed they must be priests.

They weren’t. They were William the Conqueror’s Normans, waiting for the signal to launch their invasion.