557. 1066: The Norman Conquest (Part 4)

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Described as 'not just the best, but more importantly, the longest history of the Norman Conquest at six volumes,' published to mark the 800th anniversary. The hosts opened with a lengthy quote from Freeman mourning the fall of Harold and Anglo-Saxon England.

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Described as 'the brilliant novel about this' which covers English Varangians in Constantinople. Tom noted it is 'full of anachronisms and stuff, but is absolutely brilliant on the sense of this is a seismic shock,' and that Rathbone cast the Normans as equivalent to the Nazi occupation of Poland.