History Forum / General / British History / June 2005

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelle_of_Sussex uther?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceawlin_of_Wessex arthur?
points of argument...
aelle and uther both use seigecraft.

When I go and see War of the Worlds will I see any of your village?
Mekon

Can you imagine Charles Dickens boxing?  How about Shakespeare on skis?
Conan Doyle boxed and skied.  He also played golf and was even on a
celebrity cricket team!  You can learn all the details at:
http://www.siracd.com/life/life_sports.shtml

This is on topic, since it concerns overseas (especially US) people's
awareness of the scale of the theatre within which we discuss our British
history.
My main subject is Geography and within one field with which I am involved I

http://members.aol.com/eurostamm/camilla.html
Absolutely First-Rate, WAR.
You should put all this in a beautiful, pricey, illustrated,
with-charts, BOOK, along with your other GEMS, tell us about it HERE and

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Could you supremely qualified UK posters please settle a pub argument of
last evening?
I'm sure I know the correct answer and am amazed it's even a discussion, but
...

At what point during or after WWII did the Great War become WWI?
I know many people still called it "The Great War" but I am looking for the
time when it got the moniker WWI.
TIA

Does anyone know anything about any digs or lectures in Lincolnshire,
has i can't find any that isn't over £10-15 a day.
Iv'e found several, but there all £35 a day for a three week course
which is a rip off :-((.

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Can anyone help me remember the name for the type of mechanized diamond
spray worn by Horatio Nelson on his hat?  It was given him by some eastern
potentate and the O'Brian books have Jack Aubrey winning one.
TYIA.

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I remember from my first trip to the U.K. (1967)
that the British penny was a large copper disk
about the size of a U.S. half-dollar. A year or

We are all aware that there are many Winston-Churchill haters and
debunkers in Britain today -- millions indeed of the little ragamuffins
and Left-Wing prattlers and scribblers.
But, of course, that tells us FAR more about the present sick, British

Yes, Virginia, the "Academentia" creeps into Mediaeval Genealogy and
History too.
DSH
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