sorry for the late answer
the image is one showing the first UK act of genocide against Jews. The badge on their clothes is the early version of the yellow star - its the Mosaic Tablets. Back in 1275 Edward 1 came back from The Crusade and found that the Jewish money lenders were collecting on their loans to him and his boys, siezing land and property to pay on the debts owed, etc.
Eddy passed a law (The Statute of Jewry 1275) outlawing usury (even though that is a Christian Canon Law concept thus not applicable to Jews) and making Jews wear the badges so people could tell who they were. He then cynically orchestrated a progrom in York (then the seat of the throne and centre of finance). The local population rounded up the Jews, burned their property and records, then slaughtered them to a man. Result? No more debts. Pre-empting the Spanish by 200 years he then completely outlawed Jewry, and expelled them from England. Unlike the Spanish he did allow converts to remain untouched.
Edward 1 was a bit of a psycho bastard, so this really wasnt unusual for him. He is famous for pacifying the Welsh, building the Ring of Stone (the castles around the Welst borders), then carrying out cleansing razzias in Scotland. He was named Malleus Scotia - the Hammer of the Scots - as well as Longshanks as he was well over 6 foot tall and built like a brick shithouse. His tomb in Westminster still carries that name on it to this day.
When he proposed taxing the Church to pay for one of his campaigns in Scotland a bishop protested....Edward had him hauled in front of him then shouted at him so much he dropped dead of a heart attack at the foot of the throne. When a few blokes then tried to rob his taxation haul in the biggest burglary of the time, he had them flayed and made into a pair of boots.
Nice.....puts old Harry wearing a mock Nazi uniform into perspective eh?
His Son Edward 2 was one of the worst kings ever, and died with a red hot poker up his arse. His grandson Edward 3 was one of our greatest kings, gave us the Cross of St George as our flag, enforced the Common Law of England as the official legal system, and the first to make English the official languge of England.
someone beat me to the Shackleton answer....another big hero of mine.
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