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History. Part 1 - The Anglo-Saxon Path: Hardship and Faith. (Transcript added).
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- The Rise of the Protestants
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- Feb 24, 2026
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- 1905
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Regular episode Season 1 1 History. Part 1 - The Anglo-Saxon Path: Hardship and Faith. (Transcript added). © 20 26 The Rise of the Protestants., Author, Shaughan Holt. The artwork shows a scene from the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, featuring William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The Bayeux Tapestry uses pictures to tell the story of the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, and his defeat of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The tapestry was made between 1067 and 1079, most likely by embroiderers in Canterbury, England, and probably for Odo, the Bishop of Bayeux. Although it is called a tapestry, the scenes are actually embroidered, not woven, onto the linen. It is the largest and best-preserved work of its kind from the Middle Ages. The tapestry is important not just for telling the story of the Norman invasion, but also for showing many details of medieval warfare and daily life. Today, the tapestry is on permanent public display at the William the Conqueror Centre in Bayeux, Normandy, France . The music is Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Also called the Tallis Fantasia, this is a one-movement piece for string orchestra by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Williams based the piece on a melody by the 16th-century Tudor composer Thomas Tallis. It was first performed at Gloucester Cathedral during the 1910 Three Choirs Festival and has since become one of the most loved works in English orchestral music. Tallis first wrote the tune in 1567 for a Psalter commissioned by Matthew Parker, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The tune was used for a metrical version of Psalm 2, which begins in the King James Bible, “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain…