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Edward I was known to be a controversial king in the eyes of historians, some believed him to the best English king in the Middle Ages while others believed him to be unsympathetic one. Edward I was most notably renowned for creating a ‘model parliament’...
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In this essay, I will be reviewing my sources to conclude whether William of Normandy’s victory was informed by tactics, luck or Harold’s shortcomings. Prior to the Battle of Hastings, there were two battles: The Battle of Fulford Gate (20 September) where Harald and Tostig...
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The British Revolution occurred from the 18th to 19th centuries, was a period during which predominantly agrarian, rural societies in Europe, specifically Britain, became industrial and urban. Before the Industrial Revolution, manual labor was done in houses with basic machines or manual tools. The main...
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In 1985, in Butler’s Field, Lechlow, a grave of an Anglo-Saxon woman buried over fifteen hundred years ago was discovered. The extraordinary richness of her grave goods, its abundance of amber beads and gilt bronze brooches making it one of the most opulent burial sites...
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The year 1857 indicate the year in which Indian local would revolt against the British superpower that had exploited their people for over 200 years. The Indian Mutiny and was a major turning point in Indian liberation. Although it was somewhat unsuccessful, it initiated a...
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The story of birth and the early development of English Drama are complicated. It has passed various stages and transitions. There was no drama in English before the Norman Conquest. The bulk of old English writings were overshadowed by the influence of Latin Christianity. The...
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Although the desire to reform religion played some role in the creation of the legislation for Royal Supremacy, it was not a primary motivation – instead this was focused on Henry’s need to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. This would permit him to...
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In 1066, King Edward the Confessor died, which opened up a chance for four individuals to take the throne of England. William of Normandy, Harold Godwinson, Harald Hadrada, and Edgar the Atheling. All knew that this was their one-time opportunity, seeing that Edward had no...
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World War II was a disastrous, a worldwide problem that affected every portion of the earth. After VE day in Europe, the war proceeded for over 3 months, until VJ day in mid-August of 1945. This war in Japan finished a short time after the...
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Many circumstances and events led to the American Revolution, but the relationship between Americans and British had worsened overtime from the First settlement with Christopher Columbus and the beginning of the American Revolution. During the beginning when the colonist first arrived the Americans and British...
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British popular culture glorifies the evacuation at Dunkirk as a miracle, a moment of national pride, but was this really the case? The question of whether the evacuation was a miracle is based upon the false assumption that miracles exist in the first place. To...
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The battle of Dunkirk was a military operation that took place in Dunkirk, France, during the Second World War. The war between the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Belgium, and the Netherlands which were the allies and Nazi Germany. The mission was to evacuate the allies...
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The Dunkirk evacuation, which occurred between the 26th May and 4th June 1940, codenamed “Operation Dynamo” involved the successful rescue of 338,000 British, French and Belgian troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in Northern France. The event has embedded itself in the memory of the...
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The British colonialism in India lasted for about 190 years, beginning in 1757 and ended with India’s independence in 1947. With their regional control for over 200 years, it paved a way for modernization of the country thereby significantly influencing the art, culture and architecture....
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When England first got involved in Ireland a man named MacMurrough asked King Henry II of England for help. After the soilers helped MacMurrough regain his kingdom, as a reward he gave them all land. Irish land was then seized by English barons, The Barons...
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The battle at Dunkirk (1940) was fought on the Western French-German border and the Allies were beginning to lose. When this happened the Nazi forces advanced forcing the allies to retreat to the beach of Dunkirk, the Nazis were going to take their time to...
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The explosive advent of radio technology in Malaya was akin to the revolutionary introduction of the Internet in the 21st millennia, and was instrumental to the development of Malaya during the tumultuous 1950s and 60s. The conclusion of World War 2 resulted in the British...
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The Trial of Louis XIV Louis XIV is widely known as the king who was executed at the end of the French Revolution. The common public executed him for what they believed to be treason, with a plethora of underlying legal, but unpopular reasons. But...
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The war had been an enormous bomb blast. Everything thrown up, tumbling, turning and scattering high in the air. Now it was over; the whole lot was coming back down to land. But it was all settling in different places. – Andrea Levy, Small Island...
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The Boer War The Boer war is split into two parts; The First Boer War, and The Second Boer War. These wars are referred to in many ways. “For the British they were the Boer Wars, for the Boers, the Wars of Independence.”1 Many Afrikaners...
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Modern Colony is a gallery that showcases Singapore as a British Crown colony from 1925 to 1935, with great attention on the Straits-born and migrant Chinese. The gallery’s lighting and background music gave off a colonial vibe, which allowed visitors to immerse themselves in the...
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Many people visit Lincoln Castle and look around thinking “o It’s just another boring castle, however, It’s more than just a castle. How do you know what people think? Lincoln Castle has a really cool and intriguing history. Lincoln Castle’s history consists of lots of...
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A lot has been written over the years about the history of darts, but finding good credible darts history information is a completely different story. One fact no-one can dispute when it comes to the history of darts is that the game of darts originated...
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Truganini was an important figure for Aboriginals during the establishing of contact between the English and Aboriginals during the initial establishment of civilisation on Van Diemen’s Land, now modern-day Tasmania. Truganini’s mission started when she was born in 1812 on Bruny Island, around 35 years...
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Tension and mistrust arising from the war between New France and 13 English colonies led to the expulsion of the Acadians. The British thought the Acadians were a threat to appropriation of the land. The Expulsion (1755–1764) occurred during the French and Indian War (the...
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Emerging from the post-war imperial defeat, in a milieu where national pride was perpetually receding, the abolitionist campaign was able to gain momentum in the various echelons of society due to the multifarious advancements that it had the potential to enable. Various factors were integral...
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Henry VII faced many threats during his reign, with the majority being at the beginning of it. The three main threats came from Lambert Simnel, Perkin Warbeck and the de la Pole family; especially Edmund de la Pole. The threat of pretenders were definitely very...
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The British Empire was one of the widest spread and most successful empires in history. There are many reasons why the British were so successful. Firstly, they had access to resources throughout the world. Their territory spread across six of the seven continents. The empire...
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The Battle of Somme is considered one of the most deadliest battles of The Great War. There were two reasons for why this battle began, the first reason was that Great Britain were trying to make it difficult for the france to fight at verdun...
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Before 1944, India controlled by the British saw the development of nationalist movements such as the civil disobedience movement (Salt Satyagraha) in the 1930s, and the ‘Quit India’ movement of 1942. This resulted with India gaining independence in 1947. Within Britain this was also period...