🎧1066: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 30m
1066 is a year carved into the history of western Europe. It radically transformed the cultural, political and built landscape of England in a way that is hard to overstate - and yet its immediate aftermath is often forgotten. By Domesday, just 20 years later, around 94 percent of England's land remained in the hands of the Normans and their allies, and their children would inherit its vast majority.
So what became of those Anglo-Saxons who were too young to fight in 1066? In this episode Matt chats to Dr Eleanor Parker, author of the fascinating new book Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England, to find out more about the fates, fortunes and misfortunes of those last people born and raised in pre-conquest England.
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