Quotes About England

as it would soon give Mary a great deal more to think about than reasserting her claim to the throne of England.

In late January 1569, she was taken on a long journey south to Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire

Technical Sergeant Garp, the late gunner whose familiarity with violent death cannot be exaggerated, served with the Eighth Air Force – the air force that bombed the Continent from England.

Francis asked his sister Margaret, Duchess of Alençon, to do the honours in her place, but she flatly refused to meet 'the King of England's whore'.

Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual air begot: Long didst thou sit alone in northern grot, While yet our England was a wolfish den;

Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

Certain English geologists produced confusion by embracing continental drift and then drawing up narratives and maps that showed continents moving all over the earth with respect to a fixed and undriftable England.

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

For the pestilence to reach Warwickshire, England, in the summer of 1596, two events need to occur in the lives of two separate people, and then these people need to meet. The

Mercia was the last of the major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to emerge.

run through by a spear-wielding St Edmund,

England had been conquered by the Vikings, and its ancient royal family were in exile – in Normandy.

English had been used since the start of the seventh century to draft administrative documents,

Alfred responded to the invasion by summoning an army

At the end of his career, when William attempted to assess the scale of this transformation by launching a great survey, his subjects compared it to the Last Judgement of God. Thanks to the Domesday Book, we know more about eleventh-century England than any other medieval society anywhere in the world. Accurate

He was, in the words of one modern historian, 'the last great pagan king of Anglo-Saxon England'.

Ealdred of Bamburgh, had dutifully attended several assemblies down to his death in 933.

Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, and there Æthelfrith was slain.

Æthelberht had a Christian queen and a renovated Roman city as his capital.

ruler of all these regions, Æthelstan has good claim to be considered the first king of England

Remarkably, this Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (as it was later known) was written not in Latin, as was the practice in virtually every other literate corner of Europe, but in the everyday language that people spoke. By the end of the tenth century, this language had a name for the new state: it was 'the land of the Angles', Engla lond.4

in English.

In 686 Cædwalla invaded the Isle of Wight,