WHAT IF... THE WHITE SHIP HADN’T SUNK?
Sep 30, 2021
3 minutes
The Anarchy: nearly two decades of civil war in England, which, as the name suggests, is still remembered as a period of total lawlessness and disorder. Following the death of Henry I in 1135, two rival relatives fought for the throne, his daughter Matilda on one side and his nephew Stephen of Blois on the other. This succession crisis, years of war and an England in chaos had all rippled out from the sinking of a single ship in the Channel many years earlier.
On the night of 25 November 1120, the set sail
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