Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: https://murreyandblue.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/empress_matilda.png Empress Matilda The Oxford Castle and Prison complex drips with history. Tracing it’s roots back to Anglo-Saxon England and the world of Viking raids and fortified burghs when towns like Oxford faced waves of violence and destruction; the castle has endured sieges, held political prisoners and undergone numerous adaptations…