The Conquerors - The Pageant of England Author:Thomas B. Costain A popular "story" history of England's most colorful era, which is historically accurate in every detail but which uses the modern novelist's three-dimensional methods. The story, first of the Costain histories which will form The Pageant of England", begins with the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066 and closes with the end of... more » the reign of John in 1216, when the full merging of Norman and Saxon had taken place and the conquest was complete.« less