Hereward The Wake At Ely, 1902. Artist
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Hereward The Wake At Ely, 1902. Artist
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Hereward The Wake At Ely, 1902. Hereward the Wake, Anglo-Saxon rebel, attacking Peterborough Abbey, 1070 (early 20th century). Hereward attacking the abbey in protest at William I's imposition of a Norman abbot. From his base in the fens near Ely, Hereward was a leader of popular Anglo-Saxon resistance after the Norman Conquest and the coronation of William the Conqueror as King of England. He was the eponymous hero of a novel by Charles Kingsley published in 1865. After a work by Patten Wilson (1869-1934). From A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens [J. M. Dent & Co., New York, 1902] (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)
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