The Battle of Hastings
Dan Snow's History Hit
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A Brief History of the British Isles
The british isles, the north lantic archipelago, call it what yo will, was a patchwork of competing groups. There were kingdoms and statelets and almost tribal areas right across the isles from dunnegal to kent. England itself was a relatively big unit, taking up most f the southern part of britain. It had been united, really, for only a couple of generations, since the conquest of athel and or his little brother, edmund. Do you know what? Who was the first english king? Seems like an obvious question. Anyway, succession in particular was a terrible point of danger. And i think we might be hitting on
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