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William the Conqueror imposed a total reorganisation of the English Church. He had secured the Pope’s blessing for his invasion by promising to reform the ‘irregularities’ of the Anglo-Saxon Church, which had developed its own distinctive customs. Throughout the medieval period the Church was a pervasive force in people’s lives.
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A history of the medieval Thornton Abbey, which later became a college for priests, a 17th-century private residence and the site of 19th-century temperance rallies
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From 1939 until 1945, Britain and Allied forces battled against Axis forces in the Second World War. Via English Heritage sites and blue plaques, learn about life in the military, and how civilians found their everyday lives impacted.
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A history of Rievaulx Abbey, the first Cistercian abbey to be established in the north of England and one of the most powerful and renowned centres of monasticism in Britain.