Kingdom of England

Australian football is played across the whole of Australia and China are also giving it a go. In 1857, Tom Wills, one of the founders of Australian Football, returned to Australia after schooling in England where he was football captain of Rugby School and a brilliant cricketer. The new game was devised by Wills, his cousin H.C.A. Harrison, W.J. Hammersley and J.B. Thompson. The Melbourne Football Club was formed on August 7, 1858 – the year of the code's first recorded match between Scotch…

Few women in history transcend time the way Joan of Arc has, especially at such a young age. She is one of the patron saints of France. Joan is highly remembered and beloved by many. Even though she only lived for a mere nineteen years her life highly impacted France in politics and in the church. You may wonder, “What does Joan of Arc have to with Christianity?”. The answer is quite simple, Joan of Arc believed she had visions and heard voices that came from God- specifically Archangel…

The Middle Ages were, in a certain way, a time of darkness. Stories and history were primarily passed on through the ages by word of mouth. However, this changed when a man, a monk named Bede, took pieces of history and wrote books describing these historical events. Bede was able to learn through his monastery’s library and became the Middle Ages’ greatest scholar. Without him, our knowledge of this time period might have been limited and historical events lost. Around the time of Bede’s birth…

The Barons lost the support of the majority in England whilst William Marshall switched sides to support John, who would certainly have won the ensuing war but John died of an illness in 1216, which saved the necks of the Barons. The Magna Carta The Magna Carta was part of a counter-revolution against…

King John of England Kurt Cobain once said, ”I would rather be hated for being myself than to be liked as someone I am not!” England had many kings, some good and some not so good. King John was shockingly cruel. At one time, he captured 22 knights to be taken to Dorset and was malnourished to death. Also, he arranged the murder of his nephew. He was a perpetual liar. He lied to get his way, no matter the consequences. King John also believed that since he was King, he could get anything he…

the Great, the famous Saxon King during the late 800s is the main character in G.K. Chesterton’s The Ballad of the White Horse. History tells us that Alfred is the one responsible for protecting England’s Christian religion from Danish pagans in England. Alfred lost much of his authoritative power as a result of the successful attacks from Danish tribes. Reacting quickly, Alfred constructs an army by asking three of his closest friends, better known as chiefs, to each assemble an individual…

other great epics” (Treharne 1996). Beowulf enlightens literary classrooms with an idea of the mannerisms and beliefs of the Viking culture. The poem mainly glorifies the self-entitled character “Beowulf”. He is a brave warrior who seeks to restore a kingdom from a monstrous creature. According to the poem, the creature “Grendel” is believed to be a descendant from Caine. Caine, According to the book of Genesis in the Bible, is the son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel. It is…

April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. (The Battles of Lexington and Concord).” The start of The American Revolutionary War was marked by The Battles of Lexington and Concord. The war was…

“The Chimney Sweeper” from “Songs of Innocence” by William Blake features the difficult situation that common people were going through. The title of this poem shows that it is happening during The Romantic Period in the 1800’s whenever the kids were forced to do backbreaking labor. In the late 1700’s, prices increased sharply and work became scarce (“Chimney Sweeper Background” 541 ). The poem presents how a child was sold and what his life was after that day that will scar him for the rest of…

Old English literature encompasses literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066. Anglo Saxon literature consists of: sermons and saints' lives; biblical translations; translated Latin works of the early Church Fathers; Anglo-Saxon chronicles and narrative history works; laws, wills and other legal works; practical works on grammar, medicine, geography; and poetry. Anglo Saxon literature has gone through different…