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Five days before Stamford Bridge, and nearly a month before Hastings, an English army marched out of York to stop a Norwegian invasion and was destroyed in a marsh beside the River Ouse.
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There is something magnificently English about the patron saint of England being a man who was almost certainly Cappadocian Greek, who never visited England.
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The flagship: the history of Britain in engaging, powerful and interesting ways.
The darker parts of Britain’s past, across the whole of British history.
Britain’s myths and legends: who we are and where we’ve come from.
The great scandals of history, with Zac and Lucy going back to the evidence.
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