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2 days ago · Archaeology, however, suggests a more complex picture showing many tribal elements, Frankish leadership in the first waves, and Frisian contacts. Revolt by these mercenaries against their British employers in the southeast of England led to large-scale Germanic settlements near the coasts and along the river valleys.
2 days ago · A major acquisition for the British Museum's 250th anniversary. This large plaque is made of baked straw-tempered clay, modelled in high relief. The figure of the curvaceous naked woman was originally painted red. She wears the horned headdress characteristic of a Mesopotamian deity and holds a rod and ring of justice, symbols of her divinity.
3 days ago · In the 10th century Gloucester acquired, apparently quite suddenly, an administrative and military status which it is tempting to equate with the revival of towns elsewhere in southern England.
4 days ago · When Erik was killed in 954, Northumbria became a permanent part of the kingdom of England. By becoming rulers of all England, the West Saxon kings had to administer regions with variant customs, governed under West Saxon, Mercian, or Danish law.
2 days ago · Between 1906 and 1908, Beal traversed the Regent's Canal (itself completed in 1820) from Paddington to Limehouse, capturing images of the folk who worked and lived on and near the waters, in ...
20 hours ago · In 1733 Austria, Saxony, and Russia went to war against France, Spain, and Sardinia in the War of the Polish Succession (1733–38). The Austrians asked for British aid under the terms of the Treaty of Vienna, but Walpole refused to give it.
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