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Article: Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King.
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- History Today
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- September 1, 1998
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Ian W. Walker Sutton Publishing 320 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-7509-1388-6
There cannot be another British king about whom most peoples' knowledge is so uneven. The events of his last day, October 14th, 1066, are among the best-known passages of our history; the rest is largely a blank. Ian Walker has sent out to redress the balance.
The best contemporary historians are delivering full-length biographies of previously shadowy kings and queens. In these democratic days it would seem that royalty holds its popularity in historical studies, if only because we can know so much more about figures who were prominent in their time. Queens are especially ...