Nov 13, 2021 · The Victorian Era and the Industrial Revolution. Queen Victoria ruled over England for a large part of the century, from 1837 to 1901. For …

Jun 15, 2022 · An 18th-century pub described by the poet laureate John Betjeman as the “very heart of Leeds” has been awarded Grade II*-listed status as part of a drive to protect historic drinking houses ...

The 18th century. In America in the early years of the 18th century, some writers, such as Cotton Mather, carried on the older traditions.His huge history and biography of Puritan New England, Magnalia Christi Americana, in 1702, and his vigorous Manuductio ad Ministerium, or introduction to the ministry, in 1726, were defenses of ancient Puritan convictions.

Belmullet (Irish: Béal an Mhuirthead, meaning 'mouth of the Mullet [Peninsula]') is a coastal Gaeltacht town with a population of 1,019 on the Mullet Peninsula in the barony of Erris, County Mayo, Ireland.It is the commercial and cultural heart of the barony of Erris, which has a population of almost 10,000. According to the 2016 census 50% of people in the town were able to speak …

18th-century Britain, 1714–1815 The state of Britain in 1714. When Georg Ludwig, elector of Hanover, became king of Great Britain on August 1, 1714, the country was in some respects bitterly divided. Fundamentally, however, it was prosperous, cohesive, and already a leading European and imperial power.Abroad, Britain’s involvement in the War of the Spanish …

English art is the body of visual arts made in England.England has Europe's earliest and northernmost ice-age cave art. Prehistoric art in England largely corresponds with art made elsewhere in contemporary Britain, but early medieval Anglo-Saxon art saw the development of a distinctly English style, and English art continued thereafter to have a distinct character.

One area of their settlement was the west bank of the Schuylkill. They first encountered Europeans in the form of Dutch and Swedish settlers in the mid-17th century. From the late-17th to the mid-18th century, they were pushed westward by Quakers and other religious minorities that settled William Penn’s proprietary colony of Pennsylvania.

29 18th and 19th Century Art 18 th Century American Painting. American art of the 18 th century might be considered to have suffered from an inferiority complex. The colonial population in the decades before the American Revolution of 1776 – and much during and after the war – thought of itself as English.