Magna Carta The 1689 Bill of Rights

 

Stonehenge

Britannia: Roman Britain

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/ancient_germania.jpg

 

Britannia: The Anglo Saxon Chronicle The Origins of Old English
SULAIR: Medieval Studies: Old English Ða Engliscan Gesiðas

BBC - History - King Alfred (849 - 899)

     
When half of England was Viking The Viking Network: Standard English words which have a Scandinavian Etymology The Viking Network: Standard English words which have a Scandinavian Etymology

 

Middle English

The Crusades

The Hundred Years' War

Battle of Sluys - 24th June 1340 Battle of Crécy - 26th August 1346 Siege of Calais - September 4th 1347
Battle of Poitiers - September 19th 1356 Battle of Agincourt - 25th October 1415 The English longbow
    Battle of Castillon - July 17 1457

Wars of the Roses

English Civil War

The Oliver Cromwell website

Thomas Cranmer

BBC - History - William Caxton (c.1422 - c.1491)

 

http://www.bnp.org.uk/columnists/brimstone2.php?leeId=69

BBC - History - British Slaves on the Barbary Coast

When Europeans Were Slaves: Research Suggests White Slavery Was Much More Common Than Previously Believed

 

Sir Francis Drake Sir Walter Raleigh   http://www.cinqueports.org/
  Captain James Cook | British Navigator and Explorer Admiral Lord Nelson and his Navy

 

Medicine

William Harvey - 1578-1657 Edward Jenner - 1749-1823  Joseph Lister - 1827-1912
     

 

 

Literature

Bede - 672/3-735

Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-1400 Francis Bacon - 1561-1626 William Shakespeare - 1564-1616 - plays, quotes, summaries, essays... John Milton: 1608/1674 The Milton-L Home Page
 John Bunyan - 1628-1688 The Life of John Dryden - 1631-1700  Daniel Defoe - 1660-1731 Jonathan Swift - 1667-1745
 Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Samuel Richardson - 1689-1761 Henry Fielding - 1707-1754 Dr Samuel Johnson - 1709-1784
 David Garrick - 1717-1779 Charles Churchill - 1731-1764 William Cowper - 1731-1800 Edward Gibbon 1737-1794
 Richard Sheridan - 1751-1816  William Wordsworth - 1770-1850  Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1772-1834 Robert Southey - 1774-1843
BBC - History - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)  Lord Byron 1788-1824 Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1792-1822 John Keats - 1795-1821
Mary Shelley - 1797-1851 Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1800-1859 Alfred, Lord Tennyson - 1809-1892 Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 - 1865)
 William Makepeace Thackeray - 1811-1863 Charles Dickens - 1812-1870 Robert Browning - 1812-1889 The Bronte Sisters 1816 - 1855 - Web
George Eliot - 1819-1880 Thomas Hardy - 1840-1928 Alice Meynell - 1847-1922  H. Rider Haggard - 1856-1925
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) Rudyard Kipling - 1865-1936 H. G. Wells - 1866-1946 Hilaire Belloc -  1870-1953
G. K. Chesterton -  1874-1936 John Masefield - 1878-1967 D.H. Lawrence - 1885-1930 Agatha Christie - 1890-1976
JRR Tolkien - 1892-1973 Enid Blyton - 1897-1968 C. S. Lewis - 1898-1963 Noel Coward - 1899-1973
George Orwell - 1903-1950 Roald Dahl - 1916-1990 Frederick Forsyth - 1938  J. K. Rowling - 1965
       
 English essayists - Wikipedia English dramatists and playwrights - Wikipedia English children's writers - Wikipedia English novelists - Wikipedia
 English poets - Wikipedia      

English English

Radicals

John Wilkes - 1727-1797

Joseph Priestley - 1733-1804

Thomas Paine - 1737-1809

 
       

 

Engineers, Science & Inventors

Richard Lower - 1631-1691 Jethro Tull - 1674-1741  Abraham Darby I - 1678-1717  John Kay 1704-1780
James Hargreaves - 1720-1778 William Herschel - 1738-1822 Samuel Crompton - 1753-1827 Richard Trevithick - 1771-1883
William Congreve 1772-1828 Richard Arkwright - 1732-1792 Humphry Davy - 1778-1829 George Stephenson - 1781-1848
BBC - History - Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 - 1859) Henry Bessemer - 1813-1898 Samuel Lister - 1815-1906 Barnes Wallis - 1887-1979
Michael Faraday - 1791-1867 John Hadley - 1682-1744    
Christopher Cockerell - 1910-1995 Alan Turing - 1912-1954 Sir Frank Whittle - 1907-1996 Tim Berners-Lee
  Bletchley Park Hovercraft History & Hovercraft Museum Website - Index  

 

Artists

English art

Francis Hayman - 1708-1776 Joshua Reynolds - 1723-1792 Thomas Gainsborough - 1727-1788  J. M. W. Turner - 1775-1851
William Hogarth John Constable Ford Maddox Brown Elizabeth Thompson/Lady Butler -1846-1933
 
 Philip Hermogenes Calderon Henry Moore - 1898-1986  

 

 
   

 

 

Some English Inventions

Churchill Online.org.uk - A Links Page for Online Churchill Resources Heydel-Mankoo's Sir Winston Churchill links

The Churchill Society London. St George's Day. By The Rt Hon Enoch Powell MBE.

http://members.aol.com/bakken1/angsax/angsaxe.htm

Christopher Wren

Newton

Isaac Newton - 1643-1727

AboutDarwin.com - Home Page

The Online Literature Library - Charles Darwin 1809-1882

Charles Darwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Clive

Cecil Rhodes

Henry Havelock

Hereford and Worcester Music, Clubs and Gigs - Elgar timeline

 

 

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