England and Wales

raiding; it was surprising how quickly the Norse people adopted the new culture. German missionaries and Anglo- Saxon’s arrivals to Viking lands and settlements meant a success conversion of Christianity in regions of Scandinavia such as Greenland, England and…

After 1872 is when soccer started gaining popularity outside of England. The very first international match ever played was in Glasgow between England and Scotland on November 30th, 1972. At the time of the international friendly, the Scottish FA didn’t exist, so it was England versus the oldest club in Scotland named Queen’s Park. Three months after the first international match, the Scottish FA was founded in 1873. Whales FA soon followed in 1875, and later the Irish FA in 1880. With this…

Before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War the tension between the colonists and Britain was at an all time high. During the 1700s, Britain imposed a series of acts that would allow the to restore their dominance over the colonies. However, these acts only caused relationship problems between the colonists and Britain. Between 1773 and 1775, before the war in 1776, there was a major imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in America. The final factors that led to war were the Tea Act,…

An English emigrant residing in the United States, John Downe un his urgent letter entails his experience and situation in America in 1830. Downe wishes to persuade his wife to move from England along with their children in order to live a prosperous life. In his personal writing, Downe adopts a passionate and hopeful tone to encourage his wife, Sukey, to reunite with him. Downe commences his letter by utilizing a sense of novelty pertaining to life in the United States in 1830. Attempting to…

Sadly, three years after marriage, she died of Tuberculosis. In November 1807, he married his cousin Elizabeth Macquarie. On the 8 May 1809, Macquarie was appointed captain-general and governor-in-chief of New South Wales and its dependencies. He left for the colony on 22 May 1809, on HMS Dromedary. He arrived on the 28 December at Sydney Cove and landed officially on 31 December, taking up his duties on the following day. He was appointed as past governor William…

Early America was the site of two very different colonial experiments in early 17th century Chesapeake and New England. This difference was particularly true of the inhabitants of each colony who would imagine, invent and respond to political authority in very different ways. Both colony’s political structure would emerge as a consequence of its founding ethos, the character of its peoples, and the internal and external pressures it faced. Chesapeake political authority was constructed according…

Institution Britain, just like the other European countries, had been hit by the 2007-2008 economic crisis. The ratio of public debt to GDP had risen to 80% by the year 2010. Cameron came became the prime minister during these hard times. His first goal was to deal with the UK's economic problem. In light of these circumstances, he introduced the £ 40 billion austerity plan in the same year. The intention of this policy was to cut down on the government spending that had contributed much to the…

It all started in 1607, when men were sent to the new world in search for gold and religious freedom, but ended up creating colonies. The colonist lived by themselves with little to no control from the government but then in 1760 when King George the third became king of Great Britain, they started to tighten their control over the colonies. The British government started passing out new laws and acts that would tax and control the colonist trade. This enraged the colonist, the colonist’s felt…

were known as the Scotch-Irish immigrants. The Scotch-Irish immigrants spoke the English language and made up seven percent of the population. However, the British Government held no respect for the Scotch-Irish immigrants. Although settlers from England continued to settle in the colonies, the percentage number of settlers did not compare to that of the German and Scotch-Irish immigrants. The Huguenots that were made of French Protestants, the Swedes from Switzerland, and the Dutch also settled…

3 October. - We Szekelys, with our prodigious powers, we fought them back. We dissipated those Magyars and those Turks that invaded our land, ay, what fools they were. We were the wolves that fought them in their own land and we captured those that dared step close to our impregnable castle. None has ever walked away from our walls, that is, the castle of Transylvania. From here, London, Jonathan Harker had come into my home, unknowingly had fallen into his own nightmare. But the man was clever…