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2 days ago · May 26, 2024. The medieval period was a crucible that forged the nation we now know as England. From the crumbling of Roman order in the 5th century to the violent birth of the Tudor state in the late 15th century, England endured conquests and catastrophes, wars and woes, plagues and persecutions. But it also witnessed remarkable feats of ...
2 days ago · The 14th century saw England face an unprecedented onslaught of invasions, raids, and attacks by the French and their allies. The epic scale and destruction of these incursions is too often left out of popular accounts of English history. While many invasion forces were repelled through English seapower, battle-tested commanders like Edward III ...
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2 days ago · History of England. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
1 day ago · The Gough Map shows that by the middle of the 14th century there was a highly developed national road system centred on London. Two of the five main roads indicated on this map crossed Wiltshire: the first ran from London through Winchester, Salisbury, and Shaftesbury to Exeter and on to Cornwall; the other one ran from London through ...
3 days ago · The fires which devastated large areas of Gloucester in 1122, 1190, 1214, 1222, and 1223 (fn. 76) evidently occurred in a town of wooden houses, and timber framing was to remain the dominant building material until the mid 17th century. Stone-built houses were exceptional and were distinguished as such in early deeds: Gloucester Abbey owned one ...
5 days ago · Epping's most conspicuous landmark, the tall red-brick water tower erected in 1872, stands to the west of the main road at the southern approach to the town. In Hemnall Street, to the east of High Street, are the Friends' meeting-house, built about 1845, and Kendal Lodge, a late-18th-century house with a large garden.
2 days ago · The Middle Ages. Since Cambridge is one of the most ancient of European universities, it is not surprising that its origins are obscure. Much legendary lore has been accumulated on the subject, especially in the course of the disputes in the 16th and 17th centuries, as to the relative seniority of Cambridge and of Oxford.
