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Werewolf Hunting: the Daily Star coverage

22/5/2016

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Daily Star joins the search for the Hull horror werewolf

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Werewolf Hunting - Sunday Express coverage

22/5/2016

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Fears an American werewolf on the prowl... in HULL

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Ancient Origins: Eadric Streona - one of the worst Britons ever?

21/5/2016

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According to an article that appeared in the BBC History Magazine in 2005, a relatively obscure Saxon nobleman called Eadric Streona, who few people have probably heard of, was named the 11th century’s worst Briton! As we approach the 1000th anniversary of Eadric’s most notorious acts of treachery in the year AD 1016, now is a good time to look at how he acquired this terrible reputation.

The year was AD 1007 and Viking raiders were continuing to plague the Saxon kingdom of England. Far from appeasing them, the payment of Dangeld – in effect bribes of gold and silver bullion to buy off the Vikings (today we might call it protection money) – was just encouraging their fleets of longships to return each year to demand yet more money. As the poet Rudyard Kipling wrote nearly 1000 years later “Once you have paid him the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane!”

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Huffington Post interview about "Old Stinker" the Hull werewolf

16/5/2016

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Terror As Legendary Hull Werewolf 'Old Stinker' Is Spotted Back On The Prowl

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Daily Express coverage of the Hull "Old Stinker" werewolf story

16/5/2016

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Residents trembling in terror after seeing '8 FOOT WEREWOLF' in British city

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Interview with Sputnik about the Hull "Old Stinker" werewolf

16/5/2016

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Be 'Were-ry': Quiet UK Town Terrorized by 'Old Stinker' Werewolf

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King John - England's worst monarch ever?

15/5/2016

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King John: The Worst Monarch in English History?

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Why was an entire village abandoned? Chat It's Fate (April 2016)

5/5/2016

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