Illustration depicting Hereward the Wake ((c. 1035 - c. 1072), an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resistance to the Norman Conquest of England. His base, when leading the rebellion against the Norman rulers, was the Isle of Ely in East Anglia.

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Photo credit: © World History Archive / Alamy / Afripics
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