Inside England’s prettiest village where no new homes have been built since the 1600s
WHAT makes a great English village? Stone cottages, dramatic landscapes and trustworthy locals? Castle Combe in Wiltshire ticks all those boxes, which is why it has been used as a backdrop for ...
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how did a person become rich in the 1600 and 1700s?
Farming was how land was made rich; wealth was how it was made. There were numerous forces at work in England starting in the 1600s and going into the 1700s. Including the commons, lords and royal ...
Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered
An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, ...
Mercantilism and the Colonies of Great Britain
Reviewed by Michael J Boyle Mercantilism is an economic policy designed to increase a nation's wealth through exports, which ...
A rare version of a famous Shakespeare sonnet is discovered
If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding.
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1,600 UK tourists will be banned from leaving Britain in June and July
Over 1,600 football hooligans and cokeheads will be banned from leaving Britain during the Euros in a new crackdown. Any failing to comply and trying to travel to host nation Germany faces six ...