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unusual facts about British history



Conway Stewart

Limited edition models have been produced on various themes mainly related to British history and leaders and luxury brand names, like automobile manufacturer Rolls-Royce and piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons.

Stuart period

The Stuart period of British history usually refers to the period between 1603 and 1714 and sometimes from 1371 in Scotland.


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Brutus of Troy

Early translations and adaptations of Geoffrey's Historia, such as Wace's Norman French Roman de Brut, Layamon's Middle English Brut, were named after Brutus, and the word "Brut" came to mean a chronicle of British history.

Canterbury Cathedral

It is rich in church history, older theology, British history (including local history), travel, science and medicine, and the anti-slavery movement.

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

He wrote numerous reviews of works about American and British history for the North American Review.

Cheshire cheese

Cheshire cheese is one of the oldest recorded named cheeses in British history: it is first mentioned, along with Shropshire, by Thomas Muffet in Health's Improvement (c. 1580).

Communist Party Historians Group

Famous members included such leading lights of 20th-century British history as Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, Raphael Samuel and E.P. Thompson, as well as important non-academics like A. L. Morton and Brian Pearce.

East Stoke, Nottinghamshire

In 1487 East Stoke was the scene of possibly the bloodiest battle in British history: the Battle of Stoke Field between Yorkist rebels (supported by largely Irish and Swiss mercenaries) facing the army of Henry VII.

Edwin Guest

He also wrote a very large number of papers on Roman-British history, which, together with a mass of fresh material for a history of early Britain, were published posthumously under the editorship of Dr Stubbs under the title Origines Celticae (1883).

History painting

From 1760 onwards the British Society of Artists, the first body to organize regular exhibitions in London, awarded two generous prizes each year to paintings of subjects from British history.

J. G. A. Pocock

His first book, entitled The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law elucidated the common law mind, showing how thinkers such as the English jurist Edward Coke (1552–1634) built up a historical analysis of British history into an epistemology of law and politics; and then how that edifice later came to be subverted by scholars of the middle to late seventeenth century.

John Philipps Kenyon

From 1987 to 1994 he was Distinguished Professor of early modern British history at the University of Kansas.

Peter Nailor

London: Institute of Contemporary British History/Royal Institute of Public Administration, 1991.

Richard Armour

This style was pioneered by the British humorists W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman with their parody of British history '1066 and All That' in the 1930s.

The Lost Centuries

It focussed upon British history between the departure of the Romans and the arrival of the Renaissance.