UK History and Politics
Medieval Britain
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- Which king was killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
- Which battle, fought three weeks before Hastings, saw Harold defeat a Norwegian army in Yorkshire?
- The Hundred Years' War was fought between England and which country?
- Which medieval ruler is famous for being a lion-hearted crusader king who spent little of his reign in England?
- Which castle did William the Conqueror begin building in London after his coronation?
- Who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 after quarrelling with Henry II?
- Who led the English army to victory at Agincourt in 1415?
- What was the 'Anarchy' in twelfth-century England?
- Which Welsh prince led a revolt against English rule at the start of the fifteenth century?
- Which Scottish king won the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314?
- What was the Black Death?
- Who was the leader of the Peasants' Revolt who met Richard II at Smithfield in 1381?
- Which English king's dispute with his barons was resolved by the Provisions of Oxford of 1258?
- What was the Statute of Rhuddlan of 1284?
- Which king was deposed in 1399 by Henry Bolingbroke?
- In which year did William Caxton set up the first printing press in England, at Westminster?
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