by Billy Roper
On July 18th, 1290, King Edward of England joined a long line of illustrious rulers to kick the Jews out of his realm. Read more about it here.
“The Edict of Expulsion was a royal decree issued by King Edward I of England on 18 July 1290, expelling all Jews from the Kingdom of England. The expulsion edict remained in force for the rest of the Middle Ages. The edict was not an isolated incident, but the culmination of over 200 years of increased persecution. The edict was overturned during the Protectorate more than three centuries later, when Oliver Cromwell permitted Jews to return to England in 1657.”
In my most recent alternate history, book, ‘Commonwealth‘, Cromwell never lets the Jews back into England, creating a very different world from that which we inherited.
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