The Battle of Hastings - 1066

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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John attempts to persuade Angela that the most famous date in English history still matters, but they end up talking for ages about beer versus wine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, you're listening to We Are History. I'm Angela Barnes.
0:07.7	And I'm John O'Farrell. Oh, and it's a big one this week, John. We all know this one.
0:12.3	We think we do. We think we do, Angela, but there's a lot more to it. It is 1066, John. Battle of Hastings.
0:23.4	1066's always presented as the first date you learn in history,
0:27.8	isn't it? And therefore, it must be the most important thing that ever happened. Is that right?
0:33.8	Well, it is. Yeah, maybe that, uh, uh, Yateman and Seller book, 1066 and all that. It was like, yeah, history sort of starts with 1066 and take it from there.
0:38.7	But why is it important?
0:41.2	Why is it significant?
0:42.9	Is it because we were taught the dusty old story of kings and queens?
0:47.0	Has it got that image to you, Angela?
0:49.3	Yeah, it's one of those, there's sort of bits of history that in my head, I can't remember what is history and what are fairy tales.
0:59.1	Do you know what I mean?
1:00.2	This is a lovely fairy tale.
1:02.3	Princess and the P.
1:03.8	Which one of those is real?
1:06.4	So William the Conqueror turns into a beast.
1:10.8	But do you know what I mean?
1:11.9	It's one of those stories you think, oh yeah, Battle of Hastings.
1:15.3	I know that one.
1:16.1	And then when I actually think about it, I go, oh, well, all I actually know is that William
1:21.1	the Conquer defeats Harold.
1:23.8	There's something to do with an arrow in the eye and then there's a topestry.
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