Stephen, King of England succession. Stephen's new Anglo-Norman kingdom had been shaped by the Norman conquest of England in 1066, followed by the Norman expansion into south Wales over the coming years. Both the kingdom and duchy were dominated by a small number of major barons who owned lands on both sides of the English Channel, with the lesser barons beneath them usually having more localised holdings. The extent to which lands and positions should be passed down through hereditary right or by the gift of the king was still uncertain, and tensions concerning this issue had grown during the reign of Henry I.
The Last of England (film) The Last of England (film) The Last of England is a 1987 British arthouse film directed by Derek Jarman and starring Tilda Swinton. It is a poetic, rather than realistic, depiction of what Jarman felt was the loss of traditional English culture in the 1980s and his anger about Thatcher's England. (including the formation of Section 28 Local Government Act.) Declaring it a homophobic and repressive totalitarian state. In 1986, Jarman was also diagnosed with AIDS and had just finished his 'masterpiece', "Caravaggio", so the film is a confluence of angry imagination. It is named after a painting by the