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Occupation, resistance, subjugation: the bloody aftermath of 1066
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The 1016 Danish Conquest that led to the battle of Hastings
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England’s northern soul
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Medieval Albigensians: Bath’s reincarnated heretics
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Royal palaces of the Hundred Years’ War
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