1066 (TRIH ep 44)
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In this episode Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland discuss 1066 and the Norman Conquest, treating it as both a dramatic story and a decisive pivot in English history. They narrate the three-way contest between Harold Godwinson, Harald Hardrada and William of Normandy, cover Stamford Bridge and the Battle of Hastings, and explain how Norman military (castles and cavalry) and papal support (a papal banner and the broader Gregorian Reform) changed England's political and ecclesiastical landscape....
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Around 1066
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- First Crusade (1096)
- East–West Schism (1054)
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Crusades (1095)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)
- Capture of Jerusalem by First Crusade (1099)