Article: Great Tales from English History: Cheddar Man to the Peasants' Revolt.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Great Tales from English History.(Book Review)
Contemporary Review;  April 1, 2005 ;     174 words ...Great Tales from English History: Chaucer to the Glorious Revolution 1387-1688. Robert...like the first, devoted to traditional episodes in English history which have been set against available facts. The...ravages of the Black Death and the effects of the Peasants' Revolt. Insofar as ...

Article: Declaration of Breda
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      6 words ...1660: see Restoration , in English history.

Article: Interregnum, the
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable;      20 words ...Interregnum, the the period in English history from the execution of Charles I in 1649 to the Restoration of Charles II in 1660.

Article: Tyler, Wat
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      16 words ...Tyler, Wat (d. 1381), the leader of the peasants' revolt of 1381. He is the subject of a drama by Southey .

Article: Ball, John
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      17 words ...Ball, John, the leader of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. He is the subject of W. Morris's A Dream of John Ball .

Article: ward
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      17 words ...1 In English history, see hundred . 2 In law, see guardian and ward . 3 In local government, see city government .

Article: Great Tales from English History, Volume One.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)
Kliatt;  March 1, 2005 ;     235 words ...GREAT TALES FROM ENGLISH HISTORY, VOLUME ONE. Robert Lacey. 2003/ 2004. Read by the author...1-84505-062-2. $49.75. Vinyl; content notes. SA Lacey romps through English history from the early Celts through the late Middle Ages. This accomplished...

Article: Bede, St
A Dictionary of World History;      79 words ......Jarrow, on Tyneside. Often regarded as ‘the Father of English History’, he wrote a number of historical works including...completed in 731). This is considered a primary source for early English history; it has vivid descriptions and is based on careful research...

Article: A revolutionary Bible? Thomas Muntzer and Gerrard Winstanley: Roland Boer writes on the Peasants' Revolt and the True Levellers.(Essay)
Arena Magazine;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......favourite examples: Thomas Muntzer and the Peasants' Revolt in 16th-century Germany and Gerrard...revolution. Thomas Muntzer and the Peasants' Revolt One of the most famous of biblical...revolutionaries. ROLAND BOER writes on the PEASANTS' REVOLT AND THE TRUE LEVELLERS What is it...

Article: Wat Tyler
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      354 words ......prominence as the leader of the rebellion of 1381, known as the Peasants' Revolt. The revolt had its origins in the plague of 1348-49, which...Revolt of 1381 (1906, repr. 1969); R. B. Dobson, ed., The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 (1970); R. H. Hilton and T. H. Aston, English Rising...

Article: Our debts to English history.(Review)
New Criterion;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......have the broadest impact on their culture. On the whole, English history has been served well by these series, which have often attracted...twentieth century's star performer is A. J. P. Taylor, whose English History 1914-1945, the last of the Oxford volumes, remains a masterly...

Article: Michael Drayton
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      525 words ......culture by turning for inspiration to English history rather than to foreign sources. Like...followed, drawing on incidents in English history: Robert, Duke of Normandy and Mortimeriados...verse letters between lovers famous in English history. Drayton turned to the fashionable...

Article: Supremacy, Act of
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable;      48 words ...Supremacy, Act of (in English history) either of two Acts of Parliament of 1534 and 1559 (particularly the former), which established Henry VIII and Elizabeth I as supreme...

Article: Hudson's English History: A Compendium.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Reference & Research Book News;  August 1, 2006 ;     98 words ...0297844156 Hudson's English history; a compendium. Hudson, Roger. Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 159 pages $16.95 Hardcover DA28 A history of England for readers on...