Insights Into History: Episode 13 "Prelude to Hastings"

This episode traces the six-century build-up to the Battle of Hastings, showing how Roman rule, post-Roman fragmentation, Viking invasions and Anglo-Saxon consolidation set the stage for 1066.

We follow key moments and figures—Caratacus, Boudicca, the rise of Wessex, Athelred, the Godwins, and the rival claims across the Channel—culminating in Stamford Bridge and the forced march south to Hastings.