untitled Anglo-Saxon history traditionally starts with Hengest and Horsa and their three ships invading Britain in the mid-fifth century, and ends with King Harold falling with an arrow in his eye in 1066. These pages fill in some gaps. What's here:Questions (starting with the basics, like "Who were the Anglo-Saxons?")Timeline (also searchable by year (450) or range (871-902) from the box at top right)Anniversaries (October 14 was the Battle of Hastings, but what else?) What's elsewhere (links to other Anglo-Saxon and early mediaeval sites)
Internet History Sourcebooks Internet Modern History Sourcebook The Internet Modern History Sourcebook now contains thousands of sources and the previous index pages were so large that they were crashing many browsers. See Introduction for an explanation of the Sourcebook's goals. The Modern History Sourcebook now works as follows: This Main Index page has been much extended to show all sections and sub sections. Additional Study/Research Aids In addition to the above structure, there are a series of pages to help teacher and students. Modern History in the Movies Older Style Big Indices Still Available Since some faculty members had built into their course pages direct links to the Sourcebook's old indexes, these remain available, but will not be updated with materials added after 12/31/1998. Subjects covered by the source texts in each Section. Studying History The Early Modern World Reformation Early Modern World Everyday Life Structures of Life in the West Everyday Life From Popular to Mass Culture Absolutism Enlightenment
George Washington Advertisement. EnchantedLearning.com is a user-supported site. As a bonus, site members have access to a banner-ad-free version of the site, with print-friendly pages.Click here to learn more. (Already a member? Click here.) George Washington (1732-1799) was the first President of the United States of America. Early Life: George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. French and Indian War: As a young man, Washington joined the Virginia militia. Marriage: Washington married Martha Custis (born June 2, 1731 - died May 22, 1802) in 1759. A Start in Politics: In 1758, Washington was elected to the House of Burgesses in Virginia (the local governing body of Virginia). Revolutionary War: In order to pay for the expensive French and Indian War, the British taxed the Colonists (the Stamp Tax), angering them. In 1775, Washington was chosen as the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. Washington wore false teeth made from hippopotamus ivory. Related Pages:
Internet Library of Early Journals We regret to inform users that this resource is no longer available. The site has been withdrawn as the technologies which it is built with have reached end-of-life. An archived version of the site is available at Last update to original site: 1999 Date withdrawn: 1 April 2020 Please contact digitalsupport@bodleian.ox.ac.uk with any questions. Acccessing online copies of the journals and magazines Digitized versions of the journals and magazines originally hosted on ILEJ can be accessed through the following providers: Gentleman's Magazine Years 1731-1830 are available via Hathi Trust Digital Library The Annual Register Years 1758-1778 are available via Hathi Trust Digital Library Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Years 1757-1775 (volumes 50-65) are available via JSTOR Notes and Queries The Builder Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Preface from the original site: What is ILEJ? Aims Papers on ILEJ
Once Upon a Time in Edinburgh "Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence," Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish writer, wrote of Edinburgh in 1878. "It has long trances of the one and flashes of the other... it is half alive and half a monumental marble." On Sept. 18, Scots voted to remain within the United Kingdom in the country's first-ever independence referendum. Had the results been different, Edinburgh would have become more than Stevenson ever imagined. The city would have been the capital of Western Europe's first 21st-century state, the seat of an independent government serving around 5 million people, setting taxes, directing a military. Scotland will likely gain greater autonomy from Westminster in the coming years, even if it remains within the United Kingdom. Here, Foreign Policy looks back at the steady monuments and shifting streets of a city that on Thursday made a watershed decision.
Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar Abraham Lincoln's Crossroads About the Exhibit: Abraham Lincoln’s Crossroads is an educational game based on the traveling exhibition Lincoln: The Constitution & the Civil War, which debuted at the National Constitution Center in June 2005. The online game is intended for advanced middle- and high-school students. Perseus Digital Library World War 1: Paris 1919 - A New World Order? — University of Glasgow This course reassesses the legacy of the Paris Peace Conference (1919) and how it sought to create a new world order. <p>Unable to play video. Please enable JavaScript or consider upgrading your browser.</p> Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Download video: standard or HD The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 ended a Great War, but it also designed the post-war future. Produced in collaboration with the BBC, this three-week course will let you retrace the steps of those who took those momentous decisions almost a century ago. This course offers you the opportunity to purchase a Statement of Participation. This course is part of a series designed in partnership with the BBC to commemorate the war. This will be of interest to anyone wishing to find out more about how today’s world was fashioned from the outcomes of World War One. Join the conversation on social media Use the hashtag #FLtreaty to join and contribute to social media conversations about this course.
Universal Short Title Catalogue Project: The Universal Short Title Catalogue Project is an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project based at the University of St Andrews. Next year the RSA meets at the Humboldt University in Berlin, 26-28 March 2015. The RSA is one of the largest gatherings of scholars in our period on the conference calendar, and it has a strong books historical strand. USTC director Andrew Pettegree is currently the discipline representative for Books and Manuscripts, and five sessions submitted by the discipline group are automatically accepted for the programme. Andrew Pettegree now invites the submission of sessions for consideration... Read More » A key goal of the USTC is to provide comprehensive coverage of surviving copies, wherever they are to be found in the world’s libraries. Read More » Project Director Andrew Pettegree has published a new history of news: The Invention of News.
untitled The WWW Virtual Library British History Online ReMetCa: a tool to create a digital repertory on Medieval Spanish poetry The aim of this Project is to create a digital metrical repertory on Medieval Castilian poetry (ReMetCa). It will gather poetic testimonies from the very beginnings of Spanish lyrics at the end of 12th century, until the rich and varied poetic manifestations from the Cancioneros of the 15th and 16th centuries, ending with the Cancionero General de Hernando del Castillo (1511). Although metrical studies on Spanish Medieval poetry are developing fast in the last years, researchers have not created a digital tool yet, which enables to undertake complex analysis on our corpus, as it has already been done in other lyrical traditions in Romance languages, such as the Galician-Portuguese, Catalan, Italian or Provençal lyrics, among others, where the first digital repertories arose. ReMetCa is conceived as an essential tool to complete this digital poetic puzzle, which will enable to develop powerful searches in many fields at the same time, thanks to the new technologies.