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period of some 230 Roman years in Britain. Since they are contingent with the High Middle Ages of the 10th century AD, these massive Roman strata cannot help...

West Germanic language. It came from Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxons who migrated from what...

greatest ruler." "Saxons begin their attack on Britain as early as the 1st century BC. They compete with the Romans, who may have employed Germanic Franks as...

the seas around northern Europe were some 400 feet lower than today. Britain was not an island but the uninhabited northwest corner of Europe, and between...

the King of England be head of the British church. At the same time, the emphasis on ritual and liturgy in the Roman Catholic Church is also found, to...

tongue – gradually adopting Latin closer to the line that separated Roman Britain and the Celtic West Country. The west of England was consolidated into...

someone belonging to the highest of the five classes of Roman citizens in the division of the Roman people according to property and wealth made by Servius...

à M. Dacier, but incompletely, according to early British critics: for example, James Browne, a sub-editor on the Encyclopædia Britannica (which had published...

periodic filling of the English Channel, forming a land bridge between Britain and the European mainland; the periodic closing of the Bering Strait, forming...

by a discontinuity between one or two dominant sub-groups (quantitatively major) and a few satellite sub-groups (quantitatively minor). Ceramic entity...

Roman, built in the 1st c. AD. It leads to Mersea’s Roman burial mound (barrow) where a typical Roman lead covered box with a no less typical Roman glass...

eroded" A "'Theoretical Observatory' [...] decides which systems, sub-systems and sub-sub-systems should be recognizable, and which not. The result of this...

registered scholars (having opened on 2 May 1857 for tours). Location: in the British Library, then in Russell Square, Bloomsbury Room 2 Two tables were reserved...

Richard D. Wolff; Richard V. Pierard (1974). "The Economics of Colonialism: Britain and Kenya, 1870–1930". History: Reviews of New Books 2 (7): 172-3. doi:10...

British defeated the Spanish in order to claim the land. In 1840 the territory officially became a colony of Great Britain, and it was called British...

culture adopted by the Romans was their alphabet, a derivative of the Greek alphabet created around 700 BC. The earliest Roman alphabet was written “entirely...

beautiful one from Lord Cromer, composd chiefly of lilies of the valley, Roman hyacinths, white chrysanthemums, and other white flowers, were the only...

was recorded by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as appearing in the skies of Britain for the year 774; since no supernova remnant has been found for this year...

put in place.This rosy picture ended when imports started to arrive in Britain in 1875. Thereafter, the rising population in the cities were offered cheap...

articles. For example, the word "Mercury" can refer to an element, a planet, a Roman god, and many other things. Disambiguation is required whenever, for a given...