When historians have fun: Hereward the Wake vs the Witch Towers

Harold's death in Bayeux tapestry

I saw this on twitter the other day (@TheWorkshyFop). One of those laugh out loud moments.

Comes from the book Watling Street, which I’ve not read, and this part reflects on the Anglo-Saxon resistance to the Norman conquest. I remember learning about Hereward the Wake in history when I was about 10, and haven’t thought much about him since. What a ledge.

A masterpiece in literary understatement.

 

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