Codes and moles were used to ensure Queen Elizabeth’s longevity and continued to progress. Codes and Ciphers...
England
Londinium was established as a civilian town by the Romans about four years after the invasion of...
Established by the Romans in the 1st century AD, the edge of the river has always been...
Bonfires were lit on the night of November 5th to celebrate the failure of the plot, and...
The earliest written evidence for the Britons is from Greco-Roman writers and dates to the Iron Age....
The British – who invented impeachment – decided it no longer served its purpose and found more...
How the coffeehouse came to occupy a central place in 17th and 18th-century English culture and commerce....
The house sat for 148 days over a period of seven years during the investigation after his...
Starting from the reader rather than the text allows a new picture of nineteenth-century reading to emerge....
Topics discussed included politics and political scandals, daily gossip, fashion, current events, philosophy, science, and more. Introduction...
Of interest was the war threatening between England (and its allies) and France, and the dynastic quarrels...
Surreal legal concepts ran amuck throughout the epoch. By Lloyd Duhaime, J.D.Duhaime Law The origins of English...
Castles are best seen as an architectural expression of the social status of their owners. Introduction The...
Certain personal privileges are afforded to all peers and peeresses, but the main distinction of a peerage...
Penal treadmills were used in prisons in the early Victorian period in Britain as a method of...
Types of punishments imposed on convicts at London’s central criminal court from the late 17th century to...
Seven years of fighting between Charles and Cromwell claimed the lives of thousands, and ultimately, of the...
The earliest English coronation that is recorded in detail was the crowning of the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar...
The Normans originated as early settlers of northern France. The most valued skill was knowing one’s way...
Æthelstan was the first ruler of the whole kingdom of England. Æthelstan was the grandson of King...
Was this an effort by Prince Charles (the future King Charles II) a last-ditch effort in exchange...
The Purge cleared the way for the execution of Charles in January 1649 and the establishment of...
The Militia of Great Britain were the principal military reserve forces of the Kingdom of Great Britain....
The fyrd consisted of a nucleus of experienced soldiers that would be supplemented by ordinary villagers and...
The Church had a close relationship with the English state throughout the Middle Ages. Introduction Medieval Religion...
Henry VIII and his heirs became equally as oppressive as the Catholic Church whose chains they threw...
Many acts we would describe as crimes today were largely unprosecuted before the mid-nineteenth century. Introduction As...
Both the Georgian and Victorian eras were marked with significant changes, both socially and politically. The Georgians...
A new theology that came to dominate British religion after the Reformation altering the relationship between the...
The growing sense of nationalism in England was one of the underlying causes of the Wyatt Rebellion....