Short History of the English People"; but he seems to have thought it too short for the people to be properly mentioned. For instance, he calls one very large part of his story "Puritan England." But England never was Puritan. It would have been almost as unfair to call the rise of Henry of Navarre "Puritan France." And some of

The Middle-Ages in British History (1066-1485) Key facts : England was ruled by the Norman French. The country was united under a feudal system. Great castles, cathedrals and monasteries were built. England went to war with France over land and lost. The Norman French rulers gradually became English. The language of the people gradually changed

Mar 14, 2021 · A Brief History of England By Tim Lambert Prehistoric and Ancient England About 4,500 BC farming was introduced into what is now England. Using stone axes the farmers began clearing the forests that covered England. They grew crops of wheat and barley and they raised herds of cattle, pigs, and sheep.

England was settled by humans for at least 500,000 years. The first modern humans (homo sapiens) arrived during the Ice Age (about 35,000 to 10,000 years ago), when the sea levels were lower and Britain was connected to the European mainland. It is these people who built the ancient megalithic monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury.

England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk has indicated. The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe, a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and 44,000 years old.

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Elizabeth died in 1603, and ironically, Mary Stuart's son, James VI of Scotland, succeeded Elizabeth as King James I of England—thus creating the United Kingdom. History of the United Kingdom: 17 Century. James I (1566-1625), a Protestant, aimed at improving relations with the Catholic Church. But 2 years after he was crowned, a group of Catholic extremists, led by Guy …

Jan 23, 2019 · A brief history of England. When it comes to understanding the history of England, it's often difficult to know when you should be using the terms 'England' or 'Britain'. From the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons into the Romans' 'Britannia' in the early fifth century AD, to the unions that previously bound the present-day countries of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland …

in Glasgow, between Scotland and England. England is also home to the world's first football/soccer league, which was founded in Birmingham in 1888 by Aston Villa director William McGregor. The original format contained 12 clubs from the Midlands and Northern England. When FIFA was founded in Paris in May 1904, it had