The King's Jews: Money, Massacre and Exodus in Medieval England
In July 1290, Edward I issued writs to the Sheriffs of the English counties ordering them to enforce a decree to expel all Jews from England before All Saints' Day of that year. England became the first country to expel a Jewish minority from its borders. They were allowed to take their portable property but their houses were confiscated by the king. In a highly readable account, Robin Mundill considers the Jews of medieval England as victims of violence (notably the massacre of Shabbat haGadol when York's Jewish community perished at Clifford's Tower) and as a people apart, isolated amidst a hostile environment.
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Billy Eliot Book
After eleven-year-old Billy Elliot discovers ballet, he suffers the disapproval of his family and friends in his small hometown in northern England, where men work in the coal mines, they don't dance.
