Welcome to the British History Podcast. My name is Jamie and this is episode 414, The

Uprising.

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News of the victory at York spread fast, and people everywhere were finding their courage.

Looking back at these events a thousand years later, knowing everything that happens,

this seems hard to imagine. Partly because our knowledge of these events has been filtered

through the ruling class of England. They got to decide what counted as real history,

and what was just a bit of Mickey Mouse' faff. So for many of you, this is the first time

you've heard of the English Rebels, even if you're English yourself. And it's also

probably the first time you've heard about how they allied with the Danes in Ritok

York. Or if you had heard about it, it was probably a short sentence that was largely

offered up as a way to explain later actions by William. But if you lived here in the

11th century, the retaking of York was a massive event.

Momsbury, recounting the tale years later, wrote about how Earl Waltheoff went off on

the French, saying that he quote, singly killed many of the Normans in the Battle of York,

cutting off their heads one by one as they entered the gate.

The way Momsbury writes about it, it makes it sound like he was playing fruit ninja,

and it wasn't just the locals cheering for the home team. The Scandinavian world was

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