Includes maps of: North Sea Countries, c. 1066; Invasions of 1066 and King Harold's Responses; Battle of Hastings - Dispositions, Initial Attacks, and Counterattacks; Battle of Hastings - Final Attack and English Collapse; William's March to London, OCT-DEC 1066; Opposition to William and His Responses, 1067-1068; Oppostion to William and His Reponses, FEB-OCT 1069; Opposition to William and His Responses, 1070; Ely Campaign, 1070-1071; Securing the Conquest, 1072-1086; [Wareham and Wallingford]; [Eye, in Norfolk].

Background to war : Danes, Normans and the English royal succession -- Warring sides : Harold and William: the war lords -- Outbreak : Preparations and motivations -- The fighting : Two invasions, one conquest -- Portrait of a soldier : Viking legend, English 'patriot', and two Norman earls -- The world around war : Politics, strategy, the Church and administration -- Portrait of a civilian : Three bishops: saint, architect and 'warrior'; and a queen -- How the war ended : The conqueror's reign -- Conclusion and consequences : The English experience: law, culture and society.