Overview :Robin Hood is a national English icon. He is portrayed as a noble robber, who, along with his band of merry men, is said to have stolen from... Read More
Overview :In 1381, England was on the brink - the poor suffered the effects of war, the Black Death, and Poll Tax. At this time the brave Wat Tyler ar... Read More
Overview :"Pestilence entered... The ordinary pursuits of society were paralysed; all previously-formed plans of happiness, business, trade, occupatio... Read More
Overview :For as long as human societies have existed there have always been people who have always transgressed the laws of their respective societie... Read More
Overview :Throughout history brave Englishmen and women have never been afraid to rise up against their unjust rulers and demand their rights. Barely ... Read More
Overview :People have always imagined that human history has an end point. The way this has been imagined has varied according to time, place, and cul... Read More
Overview :George W.M. Reynolds (1814-79) was one of the biggest-selling novelists of the Victorian era. He was the author of over 58 novels and short ... Read More
Overview :The Georgian era, we are told, was a "polite and commercial" era. The supposedly refined aristocracy governed the nation while the bourgeois... Read More