Enjoy an entertaining lesson, featuring exciting reconstructions, with Martyn Whittock, the teacher you'll wish you'd had. You there at the back - stop talking!

Dan Snow visits the Saxon camp at the Battle of Hastings reenactment where the Anglo Saxons are preparing for battle.

Schoolchildren Beth and Ned give us a masterclass in the events of 1066. Why did the battle last so long? Why were Harold's army so tired? Why could William's victory be put down to luck? And why should we still care today?