Category: History - British
The geographical area of that history which alone deserves the name has more than once changed. The early home of human society was in Asia. Greece and Italy successively became the theatres of the world’s drama, and in modern times the real progress of society has moved withi...
The geographical area of that history which alone deserves the name has more than once changed. The early home of human society was in Asia. Greece and Italy successively became...
14. CHAPTER II.The English had had hard times under the Conqueror and his sons, but they had learned a great lesson; they had learned that they were one people. The Normans too, the great nobl...
15. CHAPTER III.Very few epochs of history are more clearly marked than the accession of Henry II. Most great eras are determined, and their real importance ascertained, long after the event; t...
16. CHAPTER IV.The history of the Church of England is during many ages the chief part of the history of the nation; throughout it is a very large part of the history of the people. Their ways...
17. CHAPTER V.It is one of the most distinct marks of Henry’s mind, that whatever pressure his most engrossing employments put upon him, he never for a moment gave up the task of developing t...
18. CHAPTER VI.The historical interest of the reign of Richard I. is of two sorts: there is abundance of personal adventure and incident, and there is a certain quantity of legal and constitut...
19. CHAPTER VII.The death of Richard placed John at last in the position for which he had toiled and intrigued so long; not, it is true, without a competitor, and that one whose claims were des...
20. CHAPTER VIII.The reign of Henry III. is not only one of the longest but one of the most difficult in English history. It contains more than one great crisis, and coincides in time with an ep...
21. CHAPTER IX.The long and dreary survey of the first forty years of Henry’s reign has its chief use in enabling us to trace the string of events, the accumulation of causes and motives, whic...
22. CHAPTER X.If ever king came to his throne with a distinct understanding of the work that lay before him, that king must have been Edward I. The lessons of the last fifteen years of his fa...
23. CHAPTER XI.Edward completed his work in Wales at the end of the year 1284. The next year was spent in legislation, and in the summer of 1286 he went to France. Edmund of Cornwall acted as...
24. CHAPTER XII.It is not often that a strong son succeeds a strong father, and where that is the case the result is not always salutary. If Edward I. had left a son like himself, a new fabric...