In the year 1066, occurred the other memorable dating this history, Viz, William the Conqueror,

1066. This is also called the Battle of Hastings. When William the Conqueror landed, he lay

down on the beach and swallowed two mouthfuls of sand. This was his first conquering action

and was in the south. Later he ravaged the north as well. The Norman Conquest was a good

thing, as from this time onwards England stopped being conquered and thus was able to become

top nation. So says W.C. Seller and R.G. Yateman's classic 1066 and all that. And who might

it disagree? Welcome to the rest is history with me, Dominic Sambrook, romantic freedom-loving

air of the Anglo-Saxons and Gray, Grim, Tom Holland and Norman to his fingertips. Thanks, Dominic,

for that introduction. Do you know I have actually played William the Conqueror on national TV?

Of course, yes. I am a sleek, evil Norman to my clean shaven chops. So when people mistake

you for actor Tom Holland? I mean you are actor. Yes, I am an actor. He's the impersonator.

Well, I think that anyone who saw my performance as William of Normandy would accept that it

was a say. It would make it necessary. If that's being performance. Yes, his casting by Marvel

was just a colossal case of mistaken identity, right? Yes, pretty much. Pretty much. He's

taken a time to get on to Tom Spiderman, Jakes. But we finally, well, after 45 episodes, we got

onto them. So they were well done for on your Australian self-restraint on my part. It's been

heroic. So Tom, when I was at school, like you, like probably a lot of our listeners, I learned

that there was one date that you had to know in English history. It's the defining date in

all English history 1066. Now, do you think that it deserves its place, first of all? Well, we

have a question on that, don't we? From Richard Deval, who asks, is 1066 a genuine pivot point

in English history? And I think so. Give us a sense of what happened, I suppose.

Okay, so before we come to that, before we come to that, essentially, I think it is because

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