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Thread #95520   Message #1861198
Posted By: Grab
17-Oct-06 - 08:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: Battle of Hstings Anniversary
Subject: RE: BS: Battle of Hstings Anniversary
Probably the equivalent of Magna Carta a hundred years earlier, and maybe reduced English involvement in the Crusades too. Still, you never know - just because there were a few good kings in a row back then, it doesn't follow that Harold's successor would have been OK.

And on the other hand, we wouldn't have the Domesday Book, nor (for lovers of architecture) many of the greatest English castles.

Graham.