Episode 146 - 1066 and all that: What happened after the Battle of Hastings?
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The Battle of Hastings
In ten 68, william's queen matilda is crowned. And at her coronation, you have the marvellous combination of english and norman nobility all mixing together. The picture whis ust presented is of perhaps william having achieved the very difficult task of reconciling these two groups of people together. Very shortly afterwads, it all unravels. William marches north, building castles on the way. He has got a foreign army which has been sent by the king of denmark,. And they go and take york. Now we're told that there's a scorched earth policy with crops and food being burned and destroyed. And this is the culmination of these three
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