The most dramatic episode of the Anarchy. Stephen besieged Oxford for three months until Matilda made her legendary escape across the frozen Thames in December 1142. The castle fell immediately afterwards. The escape preserved her cause and prolonged the civil war by years.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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