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historicallywoman.wordpress.com
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| | | | | In 1141, Matilda, daughter of Henry I, sat down to a victory banquet in Westminster, certain of her imminent coronation as Queen Matilda of England. Yet it was a coronation that would never come to pass - so how was England's potential first queen regnant foiled? | |
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biographics.org
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| | | | | He's the man who killed a king. Oliver Cromwell, the English Puritan turned military dictator, is today most famous for signing the death warrant that led to Charles I's bloody execution in 1649. Over a hundred years before the American and French Revolutions shook the globe, this small-time farmer from the British sticks proved with steel that the divine right of kings was not so holy after all. But what set Cromwell on his path to infamy? What possessed a guy who worked in agriculture to drop his tools... | |
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historytheinterestingbits.com
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| | | | | Detail of Emma of Normandy before an altar In the years leading up to the Norman Conquest of 1066 one woman, in particular, stands out as the matriarch of the period: Emma of Normandy. As wife of both Æthelred II and King Cnut, Emma of Normandy was the lynchpin of the story of the 11th... | |
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blog.philosophicalsociety.org
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| | | I became fascinated with guilds when I moved to Germany. Being an avid reader of all medieval history I could get my hands on, I was well aware of the Hansa (slang for Hanseatic) League's rise in the 1100s in northern Europe - mainly Germany. The wordHansa is Low German for "convoy" - thus, this... | ||
