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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.