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Mar 16, 2021 · March 16, 2021December 13, 2022. Take action: help map the lost rainforests of Britain. This post is by Guy Shrubsole. An earlier version referred only to England; this has been updated to reflect the project’s extension to cover the whole of Britain. Update 13th December 2022: The finished crowdsourced map can now be seen here & below.
Sep 21, 2021 · Another important early Medieval manuscript, the “Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”, also records a partial history of that settlement and of the Jutes too. It tells us that the Germanic tribes of Jutland and the neighboring lands were invited over into Britain by a ruler named Vortigern. The Anglo-Saxon Conquerors: Creators of Medieval England
May 16, 2022 · The campaign is led by environmental campaigner and author Guy Shrubsole who is also writing a book titled ‘The Lost Rainforests of Britain’. Historically, temperate rainforests covered a much larger area of Britain and due to Britain’s maritime climate the habitat has the potential to cover 20% of Britain overall.
Apr 8, 2024 · Roman Britain, area of the island of Great Britain that was under Roman rule from the conquest of Claudius in 43 ce to the withdrawal of imperial authority by Honorius in 410 ce. Roman Gaul. The Roman conquest of northern Gaul (58–50 bce) brought Britain into definite contact with the Mediterranean.
The Anglo-Saxon 'Cotton' world map (c. 1040). Britain and Ireland are bottom left. This map appears in a copy of a classical work on geography, the Latin version by Priscian of the Periegesis, that was among the manuscripts in the Cotton library (MS. Tiberius B.V., fol. 56v), now in the British Library.
Mar 20, 2018 · Reasons for the Raids. The primary reason given by medieval historians for the Viking raids was God's displeasure at the people's sin and selfishness. The scribe Alcuin (died c. 804 CE) epitomizes this view in a letter from 793 CE to Aethelred, King of Northumbria in which he complains about the moral decline of the country and attributes the Viking raid at Lindisfarne to God's wrath:
Feb 4, 2021 · 511 ratings49 reviews. The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'. Somewhere in the dim void between the departure from Britain of the Roman legions at the start of the fifth century and the days of the venerable Bede, the kingdoms of Early Medieval ...
