Antonia Gransden

1066 and all that Revised

Cultural cataclysm or merely a modification of an Anglo-Saxon status quo? Antonia Gransden looks at views, past and present, of the Norman conquest.

Published August 31 1988

The Benedictines and the Writing of English History

Antonia Gransden on historical writing in medieval England.

Published November 1 1980

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.