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Introduction
Year Zero
Norman England
Angevin England
Contents
Cupboards bursting with skeletons
Set in a silver sea
The idea of England comes from its history and there is so much of it to go around. Reality, it seems, beats fiction any day.
Year Zero - 1066
Starting at the end
English history doesn't start in 1066, but for most people it may as well do. For us - just for now - it starts here too. It was the end of Anglo-Saxon England…
Norman England - 1066-1154
The here and now
After one autumn day really did change the course of history, more than you might think also stayed the same.
Angevin England - 1154-1272
The Devil's brood
Three generations of Plantagenet kings against a backdrop of castles and crusades, empire and civil war, and a cast of some of the ablest rulers of the middle ages. Tyranny, the rule of law and the seeds of democrasy. England had it all. At once.