A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: A One-Volume Abridgement

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Fox, Bethany. "The P-Celtic Place Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland". Archived from the original on 28 November 2021 . Retrieved 21 February 2022. Due to the expansion of English into a world language during the British Empire, literature is now written in English across the world. [ citation needed]

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Emigration of Scots, English and Welsh-speaking people to Argentina in the nineteenth century". British Settlers in Argentina – studies in 19th and 20th century emigration. Archived from the original on 30 January 2008 . Retrieved 8 January 2008. Among the English-speaking peoples, Churchill considered Britain and the Unitied states in particular "united by other ties besides those of State policy and public need." During his wartime speech at Harvard, among the "ties of blood and history" Churchill cited were, "Law, language, literature - these are considerable factors. Common conceptions of what is right and decent, a marked regard for fair play, especially to the weak and poor, a stern sentiment of impartial justice, and above all the love of personal freedom, or as Kipling put it: 'Leave to live by no man's leave underneath the law' - these are common conceptions on both sides of the ocean among the English-speaking peoples" (6 September 1943 speech at Harvard University). Here is one of the great books of our age, Winston Churchill's most ambitious work and the crowning achievement of his career. His theme is a noble one, worthy of the great purpose and imaginative scope of its author: My previous study has concentrated on the religious history of Britain ("church history" in seminary, and personal reading since then). I was a bit surprised at what seemed a minimal treatment of that critical and defining aspect of Britain's history. September 17, 2022: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume 2, The New World, by Winston S. Churchill (Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1956)EJP – In Depth – On Anglo Jewry". 14 July 2006. Archived from the original on 14 July 2006 . Retrieved 21 August 2017. Geoffrey Chaucer ( / ˈ tʃ ɔː s ər/; c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) was an English poet and author. Widely seen as the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, he is best known for The Canterbury Tales. If 1500 years of British history is a lot to digest in one book - Romans, Vikings, more Vikings, Saxons, Normans, all the way through the 100 Years' War through the ascension of Henry VII.

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Oppenheimer, Stephen (2006). The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story. London: Constable and Robinson. ISBN 978-1-84529-158-7. The English question Handle with care". The Economist. 1 November 2007. Archived from the original on 28 September 2008. Between 1485 and 1688, England became a Protestant country under Henry VIII. His daughter, Elizabeth I, battled for succession and supremacy at home, and the discovery of "the round world" enabled a vast continent across the Atlantic to be explored. While this new era was spawning the beginnings of modern America, England was engaged in a bloody civil war and sustained a Republican experiment under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell. Another 2016 study conducted using evidence from burials found in northern England, found that a significant genetic difference was present in bodies from the Iron Age and the Roman period on the one hand, and the Anglo-Saxon period on the other. Samples from modern-day Wales were found to be similar to those from the Iron Age and Roman burials, while samples from much of modern England, East Anglia in particular, were closer to the Anglo-Saxon-era burial. This was found to demonstrate a "profound impact" from the Anglo-Saxon migrations on the modern English gene pool, though no specific percentages were given in the study. [13] Eventually, the small remaining area in and around Calais (Burgundian area) in France controlled by Britain was no longer an issue, due in part to the Wars of the Roses. The Earls and Lords were too busy killing each other.

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The Big Read – Top 100 Books". BBC. Archived from the original on 31 October 2012 . Retrieved 27 November 2010. This first of four volumes of Churchill’s long history of the English (up until the mid-twentieth century) is essentially a tale of murder and mayhem. The characters may have worn fancy clothing and lived in castles and other mansions, but their behavior, as reported here (perhaps inadvertently), was more suggestive of primitive tribalism.

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Churchill writes British history the same way I would probably write American history: with strong opinions of who are the "good guys" and who are the not-so-good. That is not a criticism, it is an observation. I actually find this more honest than the pretense of "objectivity" in too many authors. It is rather amusing, too, how Churchill will go on about the faults and failures of an important figure, and then end with a paragraph about his virtues, or about how his folly brought good to England in the end.

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Saint George is recognised as the patron saint of England, and the flag of England consists of his cross. Before EdwardIII, the patron saint was StEdmund; and StAlban is also honoured as England's first martyr.

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Most' support English parliament". BBC. 16 January 2007. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011 . Retrieved 9 February 2011. a b Novembre, John; Johnson, Toby; Bryc, Katarzyna; Kutalik, Zoltán; Boyko, Adam R.; Auton, Adam; Indap, Amit; King, Karen S.; Bergmann, Sven; Nelson, Matthew R.; Stephens, Matthew; Bustamante, Carlos D. (2008). "Genes mirror geography within Europe". Nature. 456 (7218): 98–101. Bibcode: 2008Natur.456...98N. doi: 10.1038/nature07331. PMC 2735096. PMID 18758442. English – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand". 20 September 2008. Archived from the original on 20 September 2008.Rincon, Paul (21 February 2018). "Ancient Britons 'replaced' by newcomers". BBC News. Archived from the original on 4 March 2019 . Retrieved 2 February 2019. Bowler, Peter J. (2001). Reconciling science and religion: the debate in early-twentieth-century Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p.194. .