The Peasants’ Revolt
English village peasants – poor workers owned by rich landowners – had finally taken enough harsh treatment by 1381. The Peasants’ Revolt […]
English village peasants – poor workers owned by rich landowners – had finally taken enough harsh treatment by 1381. The Peasants’ Revolt […]
The Neolithic stone circles at Avebury, roughly 23 miles from Stonehenge in Wiltshire, were among many hundreds of such circles in Britain. […]
Queen Boudica (the exact spelling is uncertain) was born in 30AD and died just 31 years later. Her name was probably a […]
Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart, 1542-87) had a most unfortunate, tragic life. She became Queen of Scotland just six days after […]
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was born and lived most of his life in London and began writing his famous diary every day from […]
The English Civil War took place in the middle of the 17th century and was a struggle between different religions for dominance, […]
Hadrian’s Wall was constructed in the 2nd century and stretched 73 miles coast-to-coast in northern England. It marked one of the borders […]
1066 was an extraordinary year for King Harold II (c.1020/22-66), the last of the Saxon kings. In January, after years of political […]
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