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A scene depicted on the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry.

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Giuseppe Garibaldi in Naples, Italy, 1861. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Section of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting a woman and child fleeing from a burning house. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Pevensey Castle, England. First fortified by the Romans, William the Conqueror famously landed his army there in 1066 and a Norman castle was developed during the century after the Norman Conquest. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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The Harrying of the North. Gouache on paper, by Patrick Nicolle (1907–95). Private collection. (© Look and Learn/Bridgeman Images)

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The 1016 Danish Conquest that led to the battle of Hastings

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The battle of Stamford Bridge, 1066. (Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Events leading up to the battle of Hastings, and the conflict itself, are depicted in the Bayeux tapestry, a 68-metre-long embroidered frieze probably made within 20 years of the Conquest. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Norwich castle

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Looking inside the medieval Holt Castle

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Dover Castle, Kent. (Photo by Olaf Protze/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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The tombs of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in Fontevraud Abbey, France. (Dreamstime)

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King Ecgfrith of Northumbria

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Margam Park, Port Talbot