The towering castles that dot England’s landscape symbolize power, conquest, and control. For centuries, they have been viewed as monuments to the Norman elite who reshaped the country after 1066.

I recently had the pleasure of attending the ninth annual Workshop on Internet Economics (WIE) at the University of California, San Diego. It might not seem a likely place to discuss English castles ...

Archeologists recently unearthed the walls of a Norman castle under a prison basketball court in Gloucester, England. A team of archaeologists exposed a 12th century "castle keep wall" while ...

Shropshire was important to William because of its border with Wales. It took the invading Normans four years to suppress England, after which the threat of internal insurgency and attacks from abroad ...

GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND—Archaeologists have unearthed an early twelfth-century castle keep wall in the exercise yard at the site of Gloucester Prison, which closed in 2013. The medieval castle also ...

The site of a lost residence of King Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, has been discovered by researchers, thanks in part to the recontextualization of a historic latrine previously found ...

William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact upon England by David Douglas (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1964). The classic biography. The Last English King by Julian Rathbone (Little Brown, 1997). A racy ...

Norwich Castle reopened after a £27.5 million transformation. Visitors can explore all five floors for the first time, including the rooftop, via a new lift. The castle features immersive Norman ...