Stephen, King of England the chaos that might now ensue, Stephen would be justified in ignoring it. Henry was also able to persuade Hugh Bigod, the late King's royal steward, to swear that the King had changed his mind about the succession on his deathbed, nominating Stephen instead. Stephen's coronation was held a week later at Westminster Abbey on 22 December. Meanwhile, the Norman nobility gathered at Le Neubourg to discuss declaring Theobald king, probably following the news that Stephen was gathering support in England. The Normans argued that the count, as the eldest grandson of William the Conqueror, had the most valid claim
The Last of England (film) fatalities that bomber crews experienced and the carpet-bombing of civilians. The book and to a lesser extent the film are very much in the tradition of Roland Barthes "Camera Lucida", Susan Sontag's "On Photography", Jeanette Winterson's 'Art Objects' and to a lesser extent John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" in that he has used the deeply familiar and personal as a vehicle for dialogue about art and contemporary culture. 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