Links With Harold Godwinson
Harold's links with the area, (although only his connection with the original foundation can be proven) persist. The local secondary school, King Harold Business and Enterprise Academy, is named after the last Saxon King of England.
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“All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity—their links with their dead and the unborn.”
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