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For The Last 1,000 Years, The Same Families Have Owned Most Of England (2016x113)

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TopTenzNet: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Simo→→How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! In this video: Shortly after the Normans conquered England in 1066, their monarch, William, seized all of the lands, then divvied up control among those soldiers and nobles who helped him defeat the Anglo-Saxons (and keeping a fair bit for himself). However, as dramatic as that was, it is even more shocking that today, most of Britain remains in the hands of the descendants of those early Norman conquerors. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/10/last-1000-years-families-owned-england/ Sources: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2479271/1-000-years-invaded-need-Norman-like-Darcy-Percy-ahead.html http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/TheAnglo-Saxonkings/CanutetheGreat.aspx http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/TheAnglo-Saxonkings/EthelredIItheUnready.aspx http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/high-house-prices-inequality-normans http://www.ahuri.edu.au/themes/home_ownership http://blogs.seattletimes.com/opinionnw/2013/08/12/homeownership-in-the-united-states-versus-canada/ http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/apr/03/social-mobility-britain-aristocracy?guni=Article:in%20body%20link http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/history/middle_ages/1066_norman_conquest/revision/1/ http://www.landreport.com/americas-100-largest-landowners/ http://www.summitpost.org/public-and-private-land-percentages-by-us-states/186111 http://universalfreepress.com/queen-elizabeth-ii-owns-16-of-earths-land-could-end-poverty-and-hunger-instead-profits-of-our-enslavement-a-new-world-order/ http://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/nov/16/home-ownership-lowest-since-1988 http://www.gallup.co