Matter of Britain

Queen Boudicca herself soon became the leader of the new army. They first sought to take down Colchester, one of the earliest Roman towns in Britain. One reason that this town was selected is due to the fact that it was formerly a Trinovantian capital. After the town had been taken, the locals had been treated as lesser folks and a temple of a former Roman emperor had been constructed, which angered…

grow in Britain”. Salt working was another valued seaside industry that contributed to the Trinovantes market economy – evidence for this being the frequent occurrence of “red hills” found along the Essex coast, the mounds thought to be an accumulation of waste created as a bi-product of “salt working”. After the manufacturing process was completed, the salt could be traded with Mediterranean countries where salt was in limited supply – making it a precious source of wealth for Celtic Britain.…

This essay will use primary and secondary sources to justify war. The primary sources used will be a speech from the Queen of the Celts, Boudicea, and one from Great Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The two secondary sources will come from scholarly, peer reviewed sources. They will be used to back up the primary sources. These two speeches took place at different times in history. However, both show the justifications that these leaders used to encourage their people to fight with…

The first indication that bombings might not be the ultimate way to destroy your enemy came during the Nazi’s invasion of France, when Hitler halted his troops on the “24 of May twenty miles outside Dunkirk” where a large group of allied forces had been surrounded. The reason for this halt being that Göring had promised Hitler that he could “bomb the enemy into submission”. Göring ultimately failed on his objective to destroy these allied forces for two reasons, one being that “bad weather…

passed down by elders. A lot of what’s known about Celtic Mythology comes from what the monks in the middle ages. Centuries before the beginning of the Christian era, Celts settled in Western Europe, especially in Gaul (later called France) and in Britain and Ireland. Britons or Brythons were the early Celtic people of…

they believe in, and does everything in his/her power to fulfill their dream-- that dream being what is best for mankind as a whole or for a certain people. During the rule of Emperor Nero, Boudicca was the queen of the Iceni tribe in Southeastern Britain, ruling alongside her husband, the king, Prasutagus. She did everything in her power to ward off Roman imperialism and led the largest British revolt against Roman rule in history. She is a hero because of her courage and determination and…

Where Thomas Paine 's ideas to separate America from Great Britain a last resort to restore a fair constitution for all people regardless of their status in society and ultimately create an ideal government in America? Thomas Paine 's observations in England helped him to develop his argument to encourage American colonists to seek independence from Great Britain. The knowledge Paine gained in England demonstrated his honest stand against England to help Americans come to a crucial decision…

victory for his country, as he once stated in his one of his speeches as Prime Minister: “You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror”. (Churchill) In striving for victory for Britain, he had to make decisions that were not ethically sound, and take actions that were not morally right, in order to progress further and be one step closer to his ultimate goal. To many British people, this dedication and motivation of…

Visitation,” Cedric C. Brown explores the connections between Milton’s fame in Europe and visits from scholarly foreigners Brown concentrates on visitations in Milton’s later works. Hugh Jenkins in “Shrugging off the Norman Yoke: Milton’s History of Britain and the Levellers” does a similar thing to Brown by delving into one of the multiple facets of the question of Milton’s English identity. Jenkins admits to his readers that his essay will explain the following: “Yet by placing particular…

Spain, Great Britain and France all had different reasons for exploring and colonizing the New World, however many of the same consequences occurred from their actions. Spain continued their search for gold, as well as for slaves in the New World, which was later named America. Great Britain, although joining later in the century began to explore America as a result of social unrest due to inflation within Britain. France was also experiencing social unrest within the country in the form of…