The tax crisis that cost Harold dear

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: March 2, 2003| Author: IAN HISLOP | Copyright information

After writing about a seventh-century burial mound at Sutton Hoo last week, I thought I had better try and make this column more up to date. So this week I am going to write about the Battle of Hastings. I went for a tour of the battlefield (at Battle) last week, and while wandering around the site with some old friends, I explained my new theory.

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