What's Where in English History Quiz

The Battle of Hastings took place on 14th October 1066 and saw an invading French Norman army defeat the reigning Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson. The result of the battle saw the victorious William Duke of Normandy become king of England, and known thereafter as William the Conqueror.

The battle is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered tapestry showing the sequence of events leading up to and including the Battle of Hastings.

The Battle of Bosworth Field took place near Market Bosworth in Leicestershire on 22nd August 1485. It was the last main battle of the Wars of the Roses, a series of wars between the rival houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England. At Bosworth Field the Yorkist King Richard III was defeated by Henry Tudor, whose mother was of Lancastrian descent. After the battle Henry Tudor took the English throne becoming King Henry VII and the first monarch of the house of Tudor.

The location of the body of Richard III was unknown for a long time until historians and archaeologists from the University of Leicester, along with members of the Richard III Society, started looking for the body which was found in September 2012 under a car park in Leicester. The body has since been reburied in a new tomb in Leicester Cathedral.

Lindisfarne is a tidal island located off the coast of Northumberland in north east England. The island can be reached by a causeway that is only passable at low tide being cut off from the mainland and only accessible by boat the rest of the time. In 793 Viking raiders attacked the island and sacked the priory that had been established by St Aidan in 634, murdering or enslaving most of the monks as well as stealing treasure and damaging the monastery.

The raid is often regarded as being the beginning of the Viking Age in Britain.

The Magna Carta was signed by King John at Runnymede in Surrey on 15 June 1215. The Magna Carta was a charter devised by Stephan Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in attempt to get the King and a group of rebel barons to make peace. The charter promised certain rights and protections to the barons.

Although the original charter failed, a modified version was reissued by Henry III's regents and then again by his son Edward I who also made it part of English law. The Magna Carta is seen as a very significant document as it marked the first real occasion on which English subjects sought to put limits on the powers of the monarch.

The Peterloo Massacre took place in Manchester on 16 August 1819 at a location called St Peter's Field. The name Peterloo massacre is a reference to St Peter's Field and the Battle of Waterloo and was first used by the Manchester Observer newspaper. The Peterloo Massacre saw fifteen people killed by a cavalry charge against protesters seeking parliamentary reform at a time when only 11% of adult males could vote.

The SS Great Britain was a passenger steamer designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and designed to work the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic route linking the city of Bristol in England to New York City. The ship combined an iron built ship with a steam powered screw propeller and was the first ocean going ship with both of these features. SS Great Britain was 322 ft long, and, between 1845 and 1854, was the largest passenger ship in the world. The ship was launched in Bristol on 19th July 1843 and was watched by Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria.

After falling out of use SS Great Britain was scuttled in 1937 before being raised and repaired in the 1970s. The ship is now a museum ship based in Bristol Harbour and part of the National Historic Fleet.

The Windscale Fire was a nuclear accident that occurred at the Windscale Nuclear Site on the Cumbrian coast. The site is still part of the UK nuclear industry and is now the location of the Sellafield nuclear waste processing centre. The Windscale incident saw a fire in one of the two nuclear reactors, known as piles, that had been built to provide plutonium for the British atomic bomb project.

The fire burned for three days and caused a significant amount of radioactive material to be released into the atmosphere.

It is believed that this lead to 240 additional cancer cases in the local area. The government at the time played down the incident and reports about the fire were heavily censored.

Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Henry II. Prior to his appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury Becket had been the Lord Chancellor and worked with Henry II to rule the country. On becoming Archbishop however Becket started to put the church rather than King first and promoted greater independence from the monarch for clergy. This led to a falling out between the two men.

On 29th December 1170 four of Henry's knights entered Canterbury Cathedral and murdered Becket. There is some disagreement as to what Henry had said to the knights with a famous, but possibly apocryphal, version being "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest". However, whatever was said it is believed that the knights interpreted this as a command from Henry to kill Thomas Becket. Becket was made a saint by the Catholic Church in 1173 and his tomb at Canterbury cathedral became a major pilgrimage site.

The Battle of Stamford Bridge occurred near the village of Stamford Bridge in the East Riding of Yorkshire on 25 September 1066. The battle saw the forces of the English King Harold Godwinson defeat an invading army led by King Harald Hardrada of Norway.

The battle was fought due to a succession struggle for the crown of England following the death of Edward the Confessor with both Harold Godwinson and Harald Hardrada believing they had a claim to be king. The battle was a victory for Harold Godwinson, although his remaining time as king was short lived as on 14 October 1066, after a long march south, Godwinson was killed by William the Conqueror's forces at the Battle of Hastings.

The first live transatlantic TV broadcast was received by a satellite dish at the Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall. The satellite dish used for this broadcast was officially called Antenna One but become known as "Arthur". The dish was designed to pick up signals from the Telstar satellite.

The site at Goonhilly, on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, was owned by BT, who continued using the site for satellite operations until 2008.