This is a very entertaining and well-illustrated 2006 article, choosing one arch-villain for each century from the eleventh to the twentieth. The all-male list includes just one King but two Archbishops of Canterbury.
So what do you think?
The ten worst Britons in history?
“Popish Plot”, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Thomas Arundel, avarice, BUF, censorship, Cnut, Culloden, de heretico comburendo, Eadric Streona, Edmund Ironside, executions, Henry II, History Extra, Hugh le Despenser, Jack the Ripper, Jacobites, John, murder, perjury, Reformation, Sir Oswald Mosley, Sir Richard Rich, Thomas Becket, Titus Oates, torture, treachery, Whitechapel murders, William Duke of Cumberland
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2 responses to “The ten worst Britons in history?”
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Edward I Robbed and murdered the Jewish community, many of whose families had been here pre William the Conqueror or came from the Rouen area at the time of his conquest. Some went into the woodwork keeping their heads down. A few were forced into the House of Conversion in what is now Chancery Lane, london.
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