Sweeney Todd Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Is This Play Based on True Events?

ByKatrina April 15, 2020 0 Comments
Ostrich Inn is located in Colnbrook, Berkshire, England. It boasted a proprietor who was reputed to have killed as many as sixty people. A very old building, the Ostrich Inn's history dates back to the year 1165. The inn is thought by some to be the 4th oldest building in England. Although no exact date is recorded, sometime during the 1600's a gentleman known as Jarman of the Ostrich Inn, along...

The Saxons

ByKatrina September 30, 2020 0 Comments
The last Romans left Britain in 410, leaving the island completely unprotected. The British appealed desperately to Rome for protection, but no help came. The Romans had their own problems in the menacing person of Alaric, who proceeded to sack the city. They had no stomach nor resoures to grant any help to a distant little outpost somewhere in the North Sea.The Picts and Scots thought that...

Timeline of UK Housing Style

ByKatrina May 21, 2020 0 Comments
Get Me My Mortgage have produced an excellent time line that gives us an idea of the evolution of British architecture. Take a look below and let us know your favorite style! Tudor – 1485 – 1603 The Tudor house was defined by its Tudor arch and oriel windows. The Tudor period was the first period to move away from the medieval style houses and was more like a timber framed country...

Colonial Trade in New England

ByKatrina April 24, 2020 0 Comments
A series of navigation acts were enforced and certain products could only be sent to England. Colonial trade was shaped by many factors, not the least of which were the rules and regulations placed upon it by England. The colonies were expected to create great profits for the motherland, and rules were put in place to ensure that this continued to happen. These mercantilist policies were...

The Marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon – Questioning the Church in England

ByKatrina April 15, 2020 0 Comments
In 1525 the alliance between Henry VIII's England and Charles V's Holy Roman Empire had deteriorated. Charles refused Henry's daughter's hand in marriage (because there was no dowry due to Henry exhausting the Treasury) and Henry wanted to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, who was the aunt of Charles. Catherine and Henry's first child, a daughter, would not be allowed to take the throne in...

King Henry VIII and the Voyage of the Mayflower to America

ByKatrina April 15, 2020 0 Comments
In 1620, the Pilgrims landed in America at Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts. They sought their religious freedom when they sailed on the Mayflower to establish Plymouth Colony. Seems hard to believe that their landing connected with the six wives of King Henry VIII, but it did.The English Reformation period started with the reign of King Henry VIII. Henry was King from 1509 to his...

Sectional Interest During and After the Mexican War

ByKatrina April 15, 2020 0 Comments
With his strong urge to obtain Texas and California, President James Polk unknowingly ignited the fire that would eventually divide a nation. Desiring to bargain an agreement to change the definition of the Mexican border and to annex Texas to the United States, President Polk sent John Slidell to Mexico City. Slidell was to ask Mexico to recognize its northern border as the Rio Grande and not...