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picture info	Social History Of England English society English society is the group behaviour of the English, how they organise themselves and make collective decisions. This article deals with the span from the emergence of the English nation to contemporary social questions in the country. The social history of England England evidences many social changes over the centuries. These major social changes have both internally and in its relationship with other nations. The themes of social history include demographic history, labour history and the working class, women's history, family history, the history of education in England, urban history and rural and agricultural history [...More...]	"Social History Of England" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
	History Of East Sussex East Sussex is a county in South East England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent to the north and east, Surrey to the north west and West Sussex to the west, and to the south by the English Channel.Contents1 History 2 Governance 3 Geography3.1 Geology 3.2 Climate 3.3 Relief and drainage 3.4 Settlements4 Economy and demography 5 Politics 6 Landmarks 7 Transport7.1 Roads 7.2 Railways 7.3 Footpaths8 Education 9 See also 10 References 11 External linksHistory[edit] Main article: History of Sussex East Sussex is part of the historic county of Sussex, which has its roots in the ancient kingdom of the South Saxons, who established themselves there in the 5th century AD, after the departure of the Romans. Archaeological remains are plentiful, especially in the upland areas. The area's position on the coast has also meant that there were many invaders, including the Romans and later the Normans [...More...]	"History Of East Sussex" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
picture info	The Protectorate The Protectorate was the period during the Commonwealth (or, to monarchists, the Interregnum) when England and Wales, Ireland Ireland and Scotland Scotland were governed by a Lord Protector Lord Protector as a republic. The Protectorate began in 1653 when, following the dissolution of the Rump Parliament and then Barebone's Parliament, Oliver Cromwell Oliver Cromwell was appointed Lord Protector Lord Protector of the Commonwealth under the terms of the Instrument of Government. In 1659 the Protectorate Parliament was dissolved by the Committee of Safety as Richard Cromwell, who had succeeded his father as Lord Protector, was unable to keep control of the Parliament and the Army [...More...]	"The Protectorate" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
picture info	Regency Era The Regency in Great Britain was a period when King George III George III was deemed unfit to rule and his son ruled as his proxy as Prince Regent. On the death of George III George III in 1820, the Prince Regent Regent became George IV. The term Regency (or Regency era) can refer to various stretches of time; some are longer than the decade of the formal Regency which lasted from 1811–1820. The period from 1795 to 1837, which includes the latter part of the reign of George III George III and the reigns of his sons George IV and William IV, is sometimes regarded as the Regency era, characterised by distinctive trends in British architecture, literature, fashions, politics, and culture [...More...]	"Regency Era" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
picture info	English Renaissance The English Renaissance Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th century to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century. As in most of the rest of northern Europe, England saw little of these developments until more than a century later. The beginning of the English Renaissance Renaissance is often taken, as a convenience, to be 1485, when the Battle of Bosworth Battle of Bosworth Field ended the Wars of the Roses Wars of the Roses and inaugurated the Tudor Dynasty [...More...]	"English Renaissance" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
	Timeline Of English History This is a timeline of English history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in England England and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness [...More...]	"Timeline Of English History" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
picture info	Tudor Dynasty The House of Tudor House of Tudor was an English royal house of Welsh origin,[1] descended in the male line from the Tudors of Penmynydd. Tudor monarchs ruled the Kingdom of England Kingdom of England and its realms, including their ancestral Wales Wales and the Lordship of Ireland Lordship of Ireland (later the Kingdom of Ireland) from 1485 until 1603, with five monarchs in that period. The Tudors succeeded the House of Plantagenet House of Plantagenet as rulers of the Kingdom of England, and were succeeded by the House of Stuart. The first Tudor monarch, Henry VII, descended through his mother from a legitimised branch of the English royal House of Lancaster [...More...]	"Tudor Dynasty" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
picture info	History Of Education In England The history of education in England is documented from Saxon settlement of England, and the setting up of the first cathedral schools in 597 and 604. Before then education was an oral affair, or followed the Roman model in diaspora and integrated families.[1] During the Middle Ages, schools were established to teach Latin grammar to the sons of the aristocracy. Two universities were established in affiliation with the church: the University of Oxford, followed by the University of Cambridge, to assist in training the clergy. A reformed system of "free grammar schools" was established in the reign of Edward VI [...More...]	"History Of Education In England" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
picture info	English Overseas Possessions The English overseas possessions, also known as the English colonial empire, comprised a variety of overseas territories that were colonized, conquered, or otherwise acquired by the former Kingdom of England England during the centuries before the Acts of Union of 1707 between the Kingdom of England Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland Kingdom of Scotland created the Kingdom of Great Britain [...More...]	"English Overseas Possessions" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
picture info	History Of The English Language English is a West Germanic West Germanic language that originated from Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain in the mid 5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon settlers from what is now northwest Germany, west Denmark and the Netherlands, displacing the Celtic languages Celtic languages that previously predominated. The Old English Old English of the Anglo-Saxon era developed into Middle English, which was spoken from the Norman Conquest Norman Conquest era to the late 15th century. A significant influence on the shaping of Middle English Middle English came from contact with the North Germanic languages North Germanic languages spoken by the Scandinavians who conquered and colonized parts of Britain during the 8th and 9th centuries; this contact led to much lexical borrowing and grammatical simplification [...More...]	"History Of The English Language" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
picture info	Kingdom Of Great Britain The Kingdom of Great Britain, officially called simply Great Britain,[1] was a sovereign state in western Europe from 1 May 1707 to 31 December 1800. The state came into being following the Treaty of Union in 1706, ratified by the Acts of Union 1707, which united the kingdoms of England England and Scotland Scotland to form a single kingdom encompassing the whole island of Great Britain Great Britain and its outlying islands, with the exception of the Isle of Man Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. It also did not include Ireland, which remained a separate realm. The unitary state was governed by a single parliament and government that was based in Westminster [...More...]	"Kingdom Of Great Britain" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
picture info	Economy Of England In The Middle Ages The economy of England in the Middle Ages, from the Norman invasion in 1066, to the death of Henry VII in 1509, was fundamentally agricultural, though even before the invasion the market economy was important to producers.[1] Norman institutions, including serfdom, were superimposed on an existing system of open fields and mature, well-established towns involved in international trade.[2] Over the next five centuries the economy would at first grow and then suffer an acute crisis, resulting in significant political and economic change. Despite economic dislocation in urban and extraction economies, including shifts in the holders of wealth and the location of these economies, the economic output of towns and mines developed and intensified over the period.[3] By the end of the period, England had a weak government, by later standards, overseeing an economy dominated by rented farms controlled by gentry, and a thriving community of indigenous English merchants and corporations.[4] [...More...]	"Economy Of England In The Middle Ages" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
picture info	Sub-Roman Britain Sub- Roman Britain Roman Britain is the transition period between the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century Crisis of the Third Century around AD 235 (and the subsequent collapse and end of Roman Britain), until the start of the Early Medieval Medieval period. The term is derived from an archaeological label for the material culture of Great Britain Great Britain in Late Antiquity. The term Post- Roman Britain Roman Britain is also used for the period, mainly in non-archaeological contexts. The term "sub-Roman" was originally used to describe archaeological remains such as potsherds found in sites of the 5th and 6th centuries, and hinted at the decay of locally-made wares from a previous higher standard that had existed under the Roman Empire [...More...]	"Sub-Roman Britain" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
picture info	Roman Britain Roman Britain Roman Britain (Latin: Britannia Britannia or, later, Britanniae, "the Britains") was the area of the island of Great Britain Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410 AD.[1]:129–131[2] [...More...]	"Roman Britain" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
	History Of Durham County Durham (/ˈdʌrəm/, locally /ˈdɜːrəm/) is a county[N 1] in North East England.[2] The county town is Durham, a cathedral city. The largest settlement is Darlington, closely followed by Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees. It borders Tyne and Wear to the north east, Northumberland to the north, Cumbria to the west and North Yorkshire to the south.[3] The county's historic boundaries stretch between the rivers Tyne and Tees, and so includes places such as Gateshead, Jarrow, South Shields and Sunderland. During the Middle Ages the county was an ecclesiastical centre; this was mainly due to the shrine of St Cuthbert being in Durham Cathedral, and the extensive powers granted to the Bishop of Durham as ruler of the County Palatine of Durham. The county has a mixture of mining and farming heritage, as well as a heavy railway industry, particularly in the southeast of the county in Darlington, Shildon and Stockton [...More...]	"History Of Durham" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo
picture info	United Kingdom The United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe [...More...]	"United Kingdom" on: Wikipedia Google Yahoo

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