The Anarchy
Long Shadow Histories
In 1120, a drunken crew steered the White Ship onto a rock, and the heir to England drowned. Fifteen years later, his throne was torn between two cousins: Stephen, the charming nephew who seized the crown, and Matilda, the Empress who had been promised it. The Anarchy tells the story of the civil war that followed, a tale of broken oaths, a captured king, a midnight escape across the ice and a boy who would found a dynasty. Real medieval history, told as a gripping story.