- Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th Century England
Excerpts from contemporary documents on child labor, work hours, and sanitary conditions.
www.geocities.com/couple_colour/Worker
- Magna Carta (5)
Explore the sites about Magna Carta, the English charter which became the predecessor of the present day constitutional law. Sites feature manuscript, history, original text, translations, and glossary of the document which promoted the rights and freedoms of subjects and rendered the kings answerable to law.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Middle_Ages/Magna_Carta
- Parish of Rowner in 1642
Research papers and articles on the parish of Rower on the west side of Portsmouth. Includes map, calendar, coinage, and artillery of the 17th century.
www.portsdown.demon.co.uk
- Religion of Gerrard Winstanley and Digger Communism
Scholarly article by Donald R. Sutherland.
etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH33/suther33.html
- Levellers.org
Historical information about the Levellers, as well as present-day groups carrying on the spirit of the Levellers.
www.levellers.org
- Piers Plowman (2)
Find sites for Piers Plowman, the Middle English allegorical narrative of an intense quest for the true Christian life in terms of the medeival Catholic mind. Sites feature texts, annotations, and historical information of the medieval poetry often attributed to William Langland.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Langland__William__1332_1400_/Piers_Plowman
- Wars of the Roses
Included basic facts and a quiz.
www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/5123/roses.html
- Bede (673-735) (10)
Read about Bede, Benedictine monk, author, and scholar, declared English Doctor of the Church for his contributions to Catholicism. Sites offer biography, religious and cultural settings of his life and times, and historical and theological works of the author known as the Father of English History for his famous work The Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Saints/Bede__673_735_
- Sources of British History: English Peasants' Revolt, 1381
Description, from a chronicle of the time, of the final meeting of king Richard II and the leader of the Peasant's Revolt, Wat Tyler.
www.britannia.com/history/docs/peasant.html
- Industrial Manchester, 1844
Written by Frederick Engels, discusses about the appalling conditions of the working class in the industrial Manchester.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1844engels.html
- Richard II
Offers a brief history of Richard II.
britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon33.html
- Invasion of England, 1066
History of the invasion with visual scenes from the Bayeaux Tapestry.
www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/bayeux.htm
- Secrets of the Norman Invasion
Comprehensive site regarding all aspects of the invasion.
www.secretsofthenormaninvasion.com
- Scottish Civil Wars
www.scotwars.com
- Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) (4)
Read about Oliver Cromwell, the political and military leader who made England into a republican Commonwealth. Sites offer biography, political life, campaigns, and articles on the Lord Protector of England, Ireland, and Scotland.
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Cromwell__Oliver__1599_1658_
- Norman Conquest School Site, The
Designed to help Key Stage 3 pupils investigate the events of 1066 beginning with the Norman Conquest to the coronation of William the Conqueror.
www.normanconquest.co.uk
- Charles I (1600-1649) (5)
Read about Charles I, the king of England, Ireland, and Scotland, from 1625 till his execution in 1949, who was involved in the struggle for power with the Parliament of England and advocated the Divine Rights of Kings. Sites feature biography, reign, religious conflict, execution, ancestry of the English monarch, and Christian Society under the patronage of S. Charles.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Stuarts/Charles_I__1600_1649_
- Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
Timeline of kings from early British kingdoms broken down by ruling line. Also features timelines for legendary rulers of Britain.
www.britannia.com/history/h6f.html
- Bridgewater Canal (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Canals/Bridgewater_Canal
- Renaissance, The Elizabethan World
Resources for the study of Elizabethan England including the life, the heraldry, and the sumptuary laws of that period.
www.elizabethan.org
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