When Edgar Aetheling's northern army fled into Scotland in 1069, William the Conqueror took his frustration out on the civilian population of Northumbria, Yorkshire and the other northern shires of England.
In order to end the seemingly ceaseless rebellions emerging from the region, William ordered every foodstuff, animal and dwelling in northern England to be utterly destroyed, and every armed man killed.
By sword, fire, exposure and starvation, Orderic Vitalis tells us 100,000 died.
Hear about the Anglo-Saxon resistance which sparked this shocking event, and why it was so important in the Norman Conquest of England.
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