Richard III of England

A man named Sir Richard Arkwright watched women in England spin cotton by hand to make fabrics for clothing. He believed that there was a way to speed this process up in order to make more fabric, quicker. This led Sir Richard Arkwright to invent the spinning machine, which would ultimately created the modern factory. This concept was so successful that the idea began to…

‘Crusade’ is a non-medieval Franco-Spanish hybrid that has been considered synonymous to the pursuit of a good cause. The Crusades were a series of on and off religious wars fought between the years from 1096 to 1487 under the authority of various Popes. The Crusades were basically fought for the recovery of the Holy Land. They were ordered by Pope Urban II in 1095, and within months the first Europeans had arrived in the Middle East to rid the Holy Land of Muslims. One story particularly…

the imagination, and her behaviour was outrageous. It was even rumoured that she and Edward III, her future father in law had a lurid affair. Another rumour was that he had raped her. When she dropped her garter to draw attention to herself at a grand banquet, it is thought the King was inspired to dream up the Order of the Garter. She died aged 57, nine years after the Black Prince. Their son became Richard II In later…

Hall (1966) describes personal space as the “small protective sphere or bubble that an organism maintains between itself and others” (Hall 1996: p112). In the book ‘The Silent Language’, Hall proposed that while animals use their urine and physical posturing to mark their territory, humans do something similar using our personal space. The proxemics theory suggests that the distance between individuals help to control the amount of sensory information exchanged and thus, helping to control the…

peace negotiations began that included many American representatives such as Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens and John Adams, as well as two British representatives, David Hartley and Richard Oswald. The official signing of the Treaty of Paris took place at Hotel d’York and was signed by King George III, along with Adams, Franklin, Jay and Hartley. The United States Congress of Confederation ratified the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784 and by the British Parliament on April 9,…

In 1779 the British ship Serapis absolutely decimated a Revolutionary ship, the Bonhomme Richard. A British officer called out and asked the rebels if they had surrendered. John Paul Jones yelled out in response, “I have not yet begun to fight!” and soon turned the tides and won the battle. Had this response come a few years earlier, it might have described the entire state of events in the colonies. The American Revolution could have been prevented almost entirely, given the situation by 1776.…

The Middle Ages: a time of political disorder, unhinged economies, and important social changes. It was times such as this unsettled period that the illustrious Geoffrey Chaucer appeared, among many creative and literary figures of this time period. Belief played a hefty role throughout the Middle Ages. Many community and altruistic events were held at the church and Pilgrimages were likewise popular as they were ways to express deep devotion to God. The most important social part Religion…

The Hundred Years War was a series of battles between England and France in the period of 1337-1453. It’s one of the largest conflicts in medieval history. The War had influenced these two country’s political system, economic development and initiated the rose of nationalism. In this essay, I’m going to focus on why and how did the English finally lose the Hundred Years War. In fact, the English was not always inferior throughout the century. They used to have advantages in different periods…

ended the Revolutionary War as well as setting up new boundaries, and noticing America’s independence. As you might know, the Revolutionary War was a war fought between Great Britain and the United States. The United States wanted independence from England. France and Spain were also involved in the negotiations of the treaty. Since four nations were involved, treaty negotiations became more complicated and they took longer than they could have been because America had peace with France, but…

Thomas More was born in London in 1477 or 1488. Both his parents came from an upwardly mobile merchant 's class. His father, John, became a judge and chose the legal profession for his son. Very little is known of Thomas 's mother, Agnes, who died sometime before 1507. More began his education at St Anthony 's, a leading London school. Then he was sent to serve as a page at Lambeth Palace, the household of John Morton, the archbishop of Canterbury. Morton 's patronage enabled More to spend…