Afterwards, you can attend one of the events taking place in England that will be commemorating the th anniversary of the Battle of Lincoln. Menu Search Account.
Cart You have no items in your shopping cart. Search: Search. Account Wishlist Log In. Medieval Warfare Magazine. Please visit our shipping page for the latest, detailed information. Last updated June 24nd, A War for England years ago. Those vanished long ago beneath the Victorian pub, the Admiral MacBride. This they never fully achieved, and when Victoria reigned, centuries later, it became used for growing and storing liquorice. Now English Heritage and the National Lottery Fund have ridden to its rescue, opening parts of the castle that have been cut off since the Civil War.
There are chilling ghost-walks and tours of the ammunition stores, with excellent historical context in the Education Room. Drive westwards along the B, from Greenhead towards Carlisle, and you are travelling along a line of history. Beneath the tarmac on this scenic alternative to the A69 west of Haltwhistle are the stones of the old military road constructed to repel 18th century Jacobite invaders from Scotland.
In , while most of the British Army was in Europe engaged in the War of the Austrian Succession, Bonnie Prince Charlie led the rebels in an effort to re-establish a Stuart monarchy.
On their way south — they got as far as Derby — they briefly held the city of Carlisle. Go through Brampton and you can see the spot where several of the rebels were later hanged.
Here are the famous licking stones, so-called because thirsty prisoners tried to extract moisture from them. The Black Country, to the west of Birmingham, stood on the thick, rich coal seams which were to power Britain to the forefront of manufacturing nations.
Close to the pleasant hills of south Shropshire, this region of some 20 expanding small towns, each specialising in a particular metal trade, was the first sizeable industrial landscape in the world. Here you can walk through scenes of those times: the limekilns, the Newcomen engine house, the chain makers, the canal wharfs.
This was the first major parliamentary act to authorise the enclosing of tracts of hitherto common land. The practice increased dramatically throughout the country in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as the population rose and the existing open field system struggled to produce sufficient food.
One of the areas most affected was central southern England, where it caused widespread destitution of the landless poor and great depopulation of the countryside. By the end of the 19th century some 5, individual acts had been implemented and about 11, square miles enclosed.
Born in Northamptonshire 20 years after the act, the so-called peasant poet John Clare wrote the most passionate and highly regarded laments for the loss of open land.
After this crucial victory, naval supremacy over the French was assured. Nonetheless, Britain had to take action to prevent ships of the lesser European navies being taken by the French, and to maintain blockades of enemy bases.
The following decades saw a massive build-up of shipbuilding at this historic Medway dockyard. Here are the massive covered slips designed to shelter timber vessels and prevent them from rotting during their long periods of manufacture. Although slavery was not abolished throughout the British Empire until , this was the act that outlawed commercial trafficking. The International Slavery Museum offers a bold and clear-eyed history of the brutal practice from which personal and national fortunes were made.
Just across Albert Dock from The Beatles Story, the museum gives a clear exposition of the trade triangle, running between European ports such as this one, the West African coast and the Americas, from which slave-produce such as sugar, rice and tobacco was brought. Chilling details too of the continuation of slavery in various parts of the world.
Admission free. Charles, 2nd Earl Grey of Howick Hall, Northumberland, prime minister from to , stands feet above the roofs of Newcastle on his Grade I-listed column. A Jewish dynasty of kings presides over the Khazar kingdom until the s.
It is believed that in , he and his band called Varangians were invited to Novogrod to bring order to the area. This is said to mark the beginning of the Imperial Russian Period. Fujiwaa Mototsune became the first civilian dictator. During this period important works of classic Japanese literature and art were produced.
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