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2 unusual facts about History of England


Il castello di Kenilworth

This opera was the first of Donizetti's excursions into the Tudor period of English history, and it was followed in 1830 by Anna Bolena, (which was based on the life of Ann Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII), then by Maria Stuarda (named for Mary, Queen of Scots) which appeared in different forms in 1834 and 1835.

Maria Stuarda

The opera is one of a number of operas by Donizetti which deal with the Tudor period in English history, including Anna Bolena (named for Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn), Roberto Devereux (named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England) and Il castello di Kenilworth.


Longman

Their first success was the publication of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, which was followed in 1841 by the issue of the first two volumes of his History of England, which after a few years had a sale of 40,000 copies.


see also

1724 in literature

John Oldmixon - The Critical History of England, Ecclesiastical and Civil

1729 in literature

John Oldmixon - The History of England, During the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart

1735 in literature

John Oldmixon - the History of England, During the Reigns of William and Mary, Anne, George I

A History of England

2. A History of England, Volume II: Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Hunter Blair (1997); Introduction by Simon Keynes; 364 pages

Charles Macfarlane

Macfarlane's most substantial work was the Civil and Military History of England, part of Knight's Pictorial History of England, edited by George Lillie Craik, 8 vols.

Clara Reeve

He made me read Rapin's History of England; the information it gave made amends for its dryness.

David Durand

His continuation of Paul de Rapin's History of England (1734) was the most successful of his works.

Exhibition of National Portraits

The first one opened in April 1866, and contained portraits of people from or linked to the history of England until the Glorious Revolution.

George Charles Dyhern

General Dyhern's great personality and career was also mentioned in works of John Entick (in General History of the Late War), David Hume (in The History of England) and described in other scientific literature and newspapers all over Europe and America through the 18th and 19th century.

George Knapton

Kanpton assisted his brothers, John and Paul - who had succeeded to and extended their father's business - in the production of several publications including works by Thomas Birch and The History of England by Nicolas Tindal and Paul de Rapin.

Guthrum II

In his translation of Johann Martin Lappenberg's History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings, Benjamin Thorpe refers to King Guthrum II as having led the East Anglians in 906 when peace was made with Edward the Elder.

James Fitzjames

Before she married, Louisa Coningham had taught at the Rothsay House girls' school in Kennington and was the author of two books, 'A Poetical History of England' and 'An Abridgement of Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding: With Some Conjectures Respecting the Interference of Nature with Education'.

John Oldmixon

His Critical history of England (1724-1726) contains attacks on Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon and a defence of Bishop Gilbert Burnet, and its publication led to a controversy between Dr Zachary Grey and the author, who replied to Grey in his Clarendon and Whitlock compared (1727).

Josiah Burchett

Burchett's A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, along with Thomas Lediard's 1735 The Naval History of England, has become a key source of naval history of that era.

Matthew d'Ancona

He is also reportedly writing a History of England with John Cleese.

Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

His great-grandfather, Rev Nicolas Tindal, was the translator and continuer of the History of England by Paul de Rapin — a seminal work in its day — and he was also the great great grandnephew of Dr Matthew Tindal, the deist and author of 'Christianity as Old as the Creation' (known as the 'deist's bible') and descendant of Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh.

Partwork

Between 1728 and 1732, Nicolas Tindal's English translation of Paul de Rapin's L'Histoire d'Angleterre (The History of England) was issued by a London printer in monthly parts.

Samuel Wale

Among them were the illustrations to the ‘History of England,’ 1746–7; ‘The Compleat Angler,’ 1759; ‘London and its Environs described,’ 1761; ‘Ethic Tales and Fables,’ William Wilkie's ‘Fables,’ 1768 (eighteen plates); Henry Chamberlain's ‘History of London,’ 1770; and Oliver Goldsmith's ‘Traveller,’ 1774.

William Stopford Kenny

He edited, compiled, and wrote many educational works, such as The History of England (1850, with William Godwin), Kenny's School Geography (1856), and Tales About the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Comets (1862, with Samuel Goodrich).