Don't talk to me about invaders, the memory of the Norman B'stard William still hangs like a dark cloud over our once fair and pleasant Saxon land. Laying waste to great swathes of the country to subjugate the peaceful agrarian populace with overbearing military force because he believed he was promised the crown by a dying old man (they probably didn't even speak the same language).
The differences between 11th C and now are: location, language and weaponry (and size of army).
Mister B