In Duke's opinion, this proves that Scots can be trusted to make a lasting peace with England, although war of 1558 was too close, Percy was too sophisticated, and Chatelguero was too far from truth, but Duke Stressing that nobles...
August 4, 1917 US Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Hines Page arrives in Plymouth, Devon. The largest city in West and proud home of a rich naval history. His visit marks a full three years since start of World War I, which Unit...
There is hardly outright hostility in Scotland to Union of 1603, which would likely have turned out differently if an English king had been on Scottish throne, but truth is that Scots can and do celebrate. The ancient Stuart dynas...
During second half of eighteenth century, increase in military spending and accumulation of public debt charges sparked intense debate about their impact on Britain. While broader economic and political interests of funding system...
1918 The rhetorical culture of House of Commons after expansion of suffrage in Britain, when for first time a large influx of new Labor MPs and a small number of women entered Parliament. While Conservative Party's attempts to li...
Since end of sixteenth century, modern historians have found in late humanist statesman Francesco Gichardini a model of historical writing. His "History of Italy", written from 1492 to 1534, was based on official documents and Gic...
Ludlow is a small historic trading town whose city leaders in 1857 thought it should have a Crimean Trophy, but is first contender for arms in Marche region . it appears not to have been Ludlow but Hereford, June 20, 1857, in an a...
Two famous late medieval depictions depict St Edmund King, martyr and shrine, linking his worship to king's prayer, and in Lydgate's illustrated poem The Lives of Saints, Henry VI Richard II kneels before shrine, while in Wilton's...
In 1468, Robert Stillington, Bishop of Wales in England, indicated that he was both a secular judge and a "judge of conscience", and a year later in his speech said: "In office of Lord Chancellor, no mistake or form should be prej...
Patrick Colquhoun was one of most prominent critics of Old Poor Law in eighteenth and late nineteenth centuries, writing in 1815: "Human ingenuity was probably used more than any other branch of political economy, for betterment o...