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21 hours ago · The United Kingdom comprises the whole of the island of Great Britain —which contains England, Wales, and Scotland —as well as the northern portion of the island of Ireland. The name Britain is sometimes used to refer to the United Kingdom as a whole. The capital is London, which is among the world’s leading commercial, financial, and ...
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United Kingdom - Economy, Trade, Manufacturing: The United...
- The Highland Zone
United Kingdom - Highlands, Islands, Geography: The creation...
- 18th-Century Britain, 1714–1815
United Kingdom - 18th-century Britain, 1714–1815: When Georg...
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An increasing share of the United Kingdom’s trade is with...
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The Roman province of Britannia endured until the 5th...
- James I (1603–25)
United Kingdom - Monarchy, Union, Parliament: James VI, king...
- Plant and Animal Life
United Kingdom - Flora, Fauna, Ecosystems: Except for...
- Religion
United Kingdom - Christianity, Islam, Judaism: The various...
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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).
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1 day ago · Stonehenge. Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England, designated a World Heritage site in 1986. Stonehenge, prehistoric stone circle monument, cemetery, and archaeological site located on Salisbury Plain, about 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Though there is no definite evidence as to the intended purpose of Stonehenge, it was ...
2 days ago · Claudius Ptolemy lived in the city of Alexandria in Egypt from about 100 to 170 CE. At that time Egypt was a Roman province and Ptolemy may have been a Roman citizen. A geographer and astronomer, Ptomely's book Geographia, influenced mapmakers on questions such as the size of the earth for centuries. Geographia had been translated into Arabic ...
5 days ago · Price: £55.00. Glenn Richardson’s latest contribution to early modern Anglo-French relations comes in the form of this edited volume covering nearly three centuries of contact between England and France from 1420 to 1700. The Contending Kingdoms is essentially the proceedings of a Society for Court Studies conference which took place in ...
3 days ago · GIS spatial data is published by Historic England and is available free under the Open Government Licence. Read the Open Data Hub Terms and Conditions and Disclaimers. The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is the only official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England.
4 days ago · Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN: 198208189X; 304pp.; Price: £45.00. The explosion of research on early modern gender in England has focused primarily on the experience or perceptions of women. Alexandra Shepard's excellent new book forms part of a new wave directing our attention equally ...
