England

1583 — The beginning of “The Moon of Skulls” describes how Solomon Kane comes at last to Negari. He finds Marylin Taferal alive. She is now eighteen. The story describes her as “only a girl, little more than a child” but that may be Kane’s sentimental response. Eighteen was reckoned fully a woman in Elizabethan…

By 1700, New England and the Chesapeake region had evolved into distinct societies despite being primarily settled by English immigrants. The divergent motivations behind each settlement’s decision to establish colonies in the New World led to pronounced political, economic, and social differences between the New England and Chesapeake colonies. The New England colonies consisted of…

In her short story A New England Nun, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman tells her readers a very symbolic story about a woman who loved and lost and found it was for the best. Louisa Ellis lives a life of solitude, a sort of deliberate and content solitude, while she waits for her betrothed to return…

King Alfred the Great Alfred the Great (849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet “the Great”….

All fans of Robert E. Howard’s work will know that his character Black Turlogh fought at the Battle of Clontarf, on Brian Boru’s side, against the Danes in 1014. Moody, given to wild battle-frenzy and fits of near madness, he hated the Danish invaders of his country with a bitter loathing, and killed them where…

The American success in the War of 1812 won the freedom of the seas by stopping the British practice of impressing American sailors, prevented privateers and naval ships from capturing American vessels and secured American trade with Europe. The growing hostility between the United States and the European nations was evident in the end of…

Introduction Anglo-Saxons is a term that is basically used in reference to a group of individuals who inhabited Great Britain in the early fifth century. This group of people invaded the south and east of the country and created an English nation, remaining in power until the Norman Conquest in the year 1066[1]. These people…

Differences between English and Danish culture based on the trip to England with my class A12. The first thing you note is that the cars are driving on the left side of the road, where we in Denmark drive in the right side. It was strange to sit in the bus and see how the…

Identify the issues raised by the growth of Manchester and analyze the various reactions to those issues over the course of the nineteenth century. Thesis: Industrialization rapidly changed the city of Manchester during the nineteenth century. The city experienced both positive and negative effects as a result of being industrialized. The factories caused many health…

During the 1600s and 1700s, the early colonies in the Americas had both similarities and differences. These colonies can be divided into three main regions: the New England colonies (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire), the Middle colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware), and the Southern colonies (Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, South Carolina,…