Encyclopedia - New England: Encyclopedia Ii - New England - History
New England - The indigenous peoples of New England. New England has long been inhabited by Algonquian-speaking native peoples, includi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of England - History
Little survives of the early music of England, by which is meant the music that was used by the people before the establishment of musica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - England: Encyclopedia Ii - England - History
Main article: History of England England has been inhabited for at least 500,000 years, although the repeated Ice Ages made much of Brita...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - England: Encyclopedia Ii - England - History
Main article: History of England England has been inhabited for at least 50,000 years, although the repeated Ice Ages made much of Britai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bank Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Bank Of England - History
The bank was founded by the Scotsman William Paterson, in 1694 to act as the English government's banker. He proposed a loan of £1.2m to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kingdom Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Kingdom Of England - History
The Kingdom of England has no specific founding date. The Kingdom can trace its origins to the Heptarchy, the rule of what would later be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of England - England Before The English
Archaeological evidence indicates that what is now southern England was colonised by humans long before the rest of the British Isles due...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anglo-saxon England: Encyclopedia - History Of Anglo-saxon England
The History of Anglo-Saxon England covers the history of early medieval England from the end of Roman Britain and the establishment of An...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Districts Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Districts Of England - History
The setting down of the current structure of districts in England began in 1965 when Greater London and its 32 London boroughs were creat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bank Of England: Encyclopedia - Bank Of England
The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom, sometimes known as "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" or "The Old Lady"...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of England - Tudor England
The Wars of the Roses culminated in the eventual victory of the relatively unknown Henry Tudor, Henry VII, at the Battle of Bosworth Fiel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Church Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Church Of England - History
Main article: History of the Church of England The Church of England traces its formal corporate history from the 597 Augustinian mission...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cleveland England: Encyclopedia Ii - Cleveland England - Recent History
Between 1974 and 1996 most of Cleveland was incorporated into a non-metropolitan county of the same name, formed from parts of the North ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parliament Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Parliament Of England - History
Parliament of England - Origins. One may trace the origin of Parliament to the times of the Anglo-Saxons. Anglo-Saxon Kings were advise...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Education In England: Encyclopedia Ii - Education In England - The History Of State Sponsored Education In England
Education in England - The Period Before 1950. From August 1833, the parliament of the United Kingdom voted sums of money each year fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of England - Recent History
The Act of Union of 1800 formally assimilated Ireland within the British political process, and created a new country "The United Kingdom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of England - Recent History
The Act of Union of 1800 formally assimilated Ireland within the British political process, and created a new state "The United Kingdom o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of England - England During The Middle Ages
The defeat of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 at the hands of William of Normandy, later styled William I of Engl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of England - England During The Middle Ages
The defeat of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 at the hands of William of Normandy, later styled William I of Engl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Administrative Counties Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Administrative Counties Of England - History
The administrative counties didn't exist prior to 1888, see traditional counties of England for the history of the English counties befor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of England - The Industrial Revolution
The late 18th and early 19th centuries saw considerable social upheaval as a largely agrarian society was transformed by technological ad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In England - Early History
History of the Jews in England - William I to Henry I: 1066–1135. There is no evidence of Jews residing in England before the Norman ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - East London England: Encyclopedia Ii - East London England - History
The oldest parts of East London are Tower Hamlets and Hackney. These areas, originally in Middlesex officially became part of London with...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ceremonial Counties Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Ceremonial Counties Of England - History
After the 1889 establishment of county councils and county boroughs, by the Local Government Act 1888, the Lieutenancy was varied from it...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of The West Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of The West Of England - History
UWE was founded in 1970 as Bristol Polytechnic, but can trace its roots back to the foundation of the Merchant Venturers' Navigation Scho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arts Council England: Encyclopedia Ii - Arts Council England - History
Arts Council England was created in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided to form the Arts Council of England, Scottish...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Economy Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Economy Of England - Economic History
See main articles Economic history of England and Economic history of the United Kingdom In medieval times (c. 11th Century-15th Century)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Church Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Church Of England - Protestant Influences
Despite separation from Rome, the Church of England under Henry VIII remained essentially Catholic rather than Protestant in nature. Pope...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Church Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Church Of England - The Augustinian Mission
Ethelbert of Kent's wife Bertha, daughter of Charibert, one of the Merovingian kings of the Franks, had brought a chaplain (Liudhard) wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Church Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Church Of England - Medieval Consolidation
The Synod of Whitby in 664 forms a significant watershed in that King Oswiu of Northumbria decided to follow Roman rather than Celtic pra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Church Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Church Of England - Separation From Papal Authority
The English Church remained in union with Rome until the reign of Henry VIII. The first break with Rome (subsequently reversed) came when...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oxford History Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford History Of England - Volumes And Authors
The volumes produced are as follows: Volume I: Roman Britain and the English Settlements - R. G. Collingwood and J. N. L. Myres (1936) ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In England - The Expulsion 1290
After the experience in Jewish legislation which Edward I had from 1269 onward, there was only one answer he could give as a true son of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In England - Modern Times
History of the Jews in England - Through the First World War. From the 1880s through the early part of the 20th century, massive pogrom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In England - Modern Times
History of the Jews in England - Through the First World War. From the 1880s through the early part of the 20th century, massive pogrom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ceremonial Counties Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Ceremonial Counties Of England - History
After the 1888 establishment of county councils and county boroughs, the Lieutenancy was reformed from its earlier basis (based in large ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fundamental Laws Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Fundamental Laws Of England - Blackstone's History
In the 1760s William Blackstone described the Fundamental Laws of England in Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the First - Chapte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edmund Ii Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Edmund Ii Of England - Royal And Military History
Upon the death of Æthelred II, who had earlier been stricken ill, on April 23, 1016, with little support from the Londinian nobility, Ed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - England National Football Team: Encyclopedia Ii - England National Football Team - History
England national football team - Early years. England played in the first ever international football match, against Scotland at Hamilt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In England - Resettlement Period 1655-1800s
History of the Jews in England - Hidden Jews in England. Main article: History of the Marranos in England Toward the middle of the se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anglo-saxon England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anglo-saxon England - England Under The Danes And The Norman Conquest 978-1066
Main articles: Ethelred the Unready , Canute the Great , and Norman Conquest of England The end of the 10th century saw renewed Scandinav...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anglo-saxon England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anglo-saxon England - Sources
There is a wide range of source material that covers Anglo-Saxon England. The main narrative sources are Bede's Ecclesiastical History an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fundamental Laws Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Fundamental Laws Of England - Unwritten History
Locke's view in ... Civil Government 1690 was "..., that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, healt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anglo-saxon England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anglo-saxon England - Formation Of England 10th Century
Main articles: Athelstan and Edgar of England Alfred of Wessex died in 899 and was succeeded by his son Edward the Elder. Edward, and his...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of England - The Anglo-saxon Conquest Of Celtic Britain
In the wake of the Romans, who had abandoned the south of the island by 410 in order to concentrate on more pressing difficulties closer ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New England Patriots: Encyclopedia Ii - New England Patriots - Franchise History
New England Patriots - 1959–1992. On November 16 1959, Boston executive William Sullivan was awarded the eighth and final franchise o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Central England In Birmingham: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of Central England In Birmingham - History
University of Central England in Birmingham - Birmingham Polytechnic. Before it became a university, by statute on March 6, 1992, it wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William I Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - William I Of England - Early Life History
William was born the grandnephew of Queen Emma, wife of King Ethelred the Unready and later of King Canute. William succeeded to his fath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of England - Religious Conflict And The Civil War
A number of assassination attempts were made on the Protestant King James I, notably the Main Plot and Bye Plots of 1603, and most famous...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New England Patriots: Encyclopedia Ii - New England Patriots - Franchise History
New England Patriots - The early years. The Boston Patriots played in the first-ever game in the American Football League, against the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metropolitan And Non-metropolitan Counties Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Metropolitan And Non-metropolitan Counties Of England - History
The current system of metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties was created in 1974 and replaced the administrative counties of England ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lehigh And New England Railroad: Encyclopedia Ii - Lehigh And New England Railroad - History
Lehigh and New England Railroad - South Mountain and Boston and successors: 1873-1882. Around 1868, serious proposals for the crossing ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Six Flags New England: Encyclopedia Ii - Six Flags New England - History
Throughout most of the 20th century, the park was known as Riverside. It started out as a picnic grove called Gallops Grove in 1840. It e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anglo-saxon England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anglo-saxon England - Sources
There is a wide range of source material that covers Anglo-Saxon England. The main narrative sources are Bede's Ecclesiastical History an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anglo-saxon England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anglo-saxon England - Seventh To Eighth Centuries
Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England began around AD 600, influenced by Celtic Christianity from the north-west and by the Roman Catho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - National Parks Of England And Wales: Encyclopedia Ii - National Parks Of England And Wales - History
National parks of England and Wales - Untamed countryside?. Archaeological evidence from prehistoric Britain demonstrates that the area...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - England National Rugby Union Team: Encyclopedia Ii - England National Rugby Union Team - History
England national rugby union team - Early History. Pupils in Private Schools (primarily Rugby) spread the game in the first half of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New England Hurricane Of 1938: Encyclopedia Ii - New England Hurricane Of 1938 - Storm History
The storm formed as a Cape Verde-type hurricane in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It reached Category 5 status north of the Bahamas around S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Green Party Of England And Wales: Encyclopedia Ii - Green Party Of England And Wales - History
The Green Party of England and Wales emerged as a distinct party in the 1990s. The Green Party formed in 1973 as the "People", with the f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anglo-saxon England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anglo-saxon England - Formation Of England: Tenth Century
Alfred of Wessex died in 899 and was succeeded by his son Edward the Elder. Edward, and his brother in law Æthelred of (what was left of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - England National Rugby Union Team: Encyclopedia Ii - England National Rugby Union Team - History
England national rugby union team - Early History. An England international side first played in 1871 against Scotland under Scottish r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In England 1066-1200: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In England 1066-1200 - Attitudes Of The Kings
Gentile-Jewish relations in England were disturbed under Stephen, who burned down the house of a Jew in Oxford (some accounts say with a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anglo-saxon England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anglo-saxon England - Heptarchy And Christianization 600-800
Main articles: Northumbria, Mercia, Offa of Mercia, and Heptarchy Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England began around AD 600, influenced...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anglo-saxon England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anglo-saxon England - Migration And Formation Of Kingdoms 400-600
Main articles: Sub-Roman Britain, Roman departure from Britain, Aelle of Sussex It is very difficult to establish a coherent chronology o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anglo-saxon England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anglo-saxon England - The Viking Challenge And The Rise Of Wessex 9th Century
Main articles: Danelaw, Viking Age, and Alfred the Great 793 is the date given by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the first Viking attack i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anglo-saxon England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anglo-saxon England - The Second Viking Age And The Norman Conquest: Eleventh Century
The end of the 10th century saw renewed Scandinavian interest in England. Aethelred ruled a long reign, but ultimately lost his kingdom t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anglo-saxon England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anglo-saxon England - Migration: Fifth To Sixth Centuries
and Anglo-Saxons It is very difficult to establish a coherent chronology of events from Rome's departure from Britain, to the establishme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anglo-saxon England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anglo-saxon England - First Viking Age: Ninth Century
793 is the date given by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the first Viking attack in Britain, at Lindisfarne monastery. However, there is a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - England National Under-21 Football Team: Encyclopedia Ii - England National Under-21 Football Team - Competition History
There is no Under-21 World Cup, although there is an Under-20 World Championship. European U-21 teams compete for the European Championsh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Queen's Counsel: Encyclopedia Ii - Queen's Counsel - History: England
The Attorney-General, Solicitor-General, and King's Sergeants were King's Counsel in Ordinary in the Kingdom of England. The first Queen'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Scotland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Scotland - War With England
Margaret's death (1290) now left the Scottish throne with no clear successor, and Edward became the arbitrator between the various claima...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quaker History: Encyclopedia Ii - Quaker History - Persecution In England
In 1650 George Fox was imprisoned for the first time. Over and over he was thrown in prison during the 1650's through the 1670's. Other Q...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Morris Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Morris Dance - History In England
Before the English Civil War, the working peasantry often took part in Morris dances, especially at Whitsun. The Puritan government of Ol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Morris Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Morris Dance - History In England
Before the English Civil War, the working peasantry often took part in Morris dances, especially at Whitsun. In 1599 the Shakespearean ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Test Cricket 1890 To 1900: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Test Cricket 1890 To 1900 - Blackham's Tour Of England 1893
Grace was injured for the first Test, so England were captained by Andrew Stoddart, and which was ruined by rain. Arthur Shrewsbury becam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Test Cricket 1890 To 1900: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Test Cricket 1890 To 1900 - England's Third Tour Of South Africa 1895/6
England's third tour of South Africa was a very one-sided series that wasn't elevated to Test status till later. England fielded 10 new c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Test Cricket 1890 To 1900: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Test Cricket 1890 To 1900 - Trott Tours England 1896
The first day of the first Test was well attended: 25,414 paying customers, and possibly 30,000 spectators in total. It was a see-saw gam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Test Cricket 1890 To 1900: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Test Cricket 1890 To 1900 - Second England Tour To South Africa 1891/2
See also: 1891/2 South African cricket season This match was not considered by anyone at the time to be a Test, but was subsequently elev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish History In Colonial America: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish History In Colonial America - In New England
In Other Parts of New England there were probably occasional stray settlers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but the intolera...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The United Kingdom - Union Of England And Wales
Mediæval Wales was rarely united but was under the rule of various native principalities. When the land-hungry Normans invaded England, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Onomastics On Judaism And Jewish History: Encyclopedia Ii - Onomastics On Judaism And Jewish History - In Spain France And England
The use of surnames thus became common among the Arabic-speaking Jews, who naturally carried the custom into Spain. Among Spanish Jews ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English-speaking Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - English-speaking Europe - History Of English In England
English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Test Cricket 1884 To 1889: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Test Cricket 1884 To 1889 - England V Australia 1887/8
There still was no formal organisation of international tours, with any promoter free to try to put together a touring side. However, for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New England: Encyclopedia Ii - New England - Politics
The early European settlers of New England were English Protestants fleeing religious persecution. This, however, did not prevent them fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New England: Encyclopedia Ii - New England - Education
New England - Higher education. New England contains some of the oldest and most renowned institutions of higher learning in the United...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New England: Encyclopedia Ii - New England - Economy
In the twentieth century, most of New England's traditional industries have relocated to states or foreign countries where goods can be m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New England: Encyclopedia Ii - New England - Literature
New England has always received a great deal of attention from American writers like Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Alla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cleveland England: Encyclopedia Ii - Cleveland England - Identity
The name Cleveland has not been entirely eliminated; these bodies still exist: Cleveland Police Cleveland Fire Brigade BBC Radio Clevela...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of England - Northumbrian Folk
Northumbria, at the northern edge of England, bordering on Scotland across the Tweed River has the most vital traditional music of Englan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New England: Encyclopedia Ii - New England - Culture
See Cuisine of New England New England - Historico-cultural roots. The first European colonists of New England were focused on maritime...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New England: Encyclopedia Ii - New England - Population
In 1910, 6,552,681 people lived in New England. Today, the total population of New England is 13,922,517. If New England were one state, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New England: Encyclopedia Ii - New England - Population
In 1910, 6,552,681 people lived in New England. Today, the total population of New England is 13,922,517. If New England were one state, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Church Of England: American History Dictionary - Church Of England
Definition and meaning of Church of England:   Church of England The Anglican church became the official Church of England du...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dominion Of New England: American History Dictionary - Dominion Of New England
Definition and meaning of Dominion of New England:   Dominion of New England The Dominion was a governing scheme of James II ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - England: Encyclopedia Ii - England - Politics
Main article: Politics of the United Kingdom, Government of England Since the promulgation of the 1284 Statute of Rhuddlan and the Laws i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - England: Encyclopedia Ii - England - Demographics
Main articles: Demographics of England, Population of England England is both the most populous and the most ethnically diverse nation in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - England: Encyclopedia Ii - England - Subdivisions
Main article: Subdivisions of England Historically, the highest level of local government in England was the county. These divisions had ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - England: Encyclopedia Ii - England - Demographics
Main articles: Demographics of England, Population of England England is both the most populous and the most ethnically diverse nation in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - England: Encyclopedia Ii - England - Geography
Main articles: Geography of the United Kingdom, Geography of England England comprises the central and southern two-thirds of the island ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - England: Encyclopedia Ii - England - English Identity
The simplest view is that an English person is someone who is from England and holds British nationality, regardless of his or her racial...   » Read the article