History too is re-cycled, like glass, water, paper and other essenials. A history book is nothing more than a re-thinking, in some cases revising as well, of what…
Category: English Language
Further thoughts on John of Gaunt & his son Henry Bolingbroke
In early February, 1399, John of Gaunt died in Leicester. He was fifty-eight years old – not a bad age-scale for the fourteenth century. His body was brought…
How did the Tudors do it?
The ‘gentry’ in English history were and are middle to upper class folk, untitled except for the odd baronet or hastily-dubbed knight, owning land, serving as magistrates, being…
The 12 basic verb English tenses (with examples)
Present: I work = I work hard all day Past: I worked = I worked hard all last year. Future: I will work = I will work hard…
1811: W.M. Thackeray is born
One year before the birth of Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta. It was 1811, and William was the son of a prosperous official on…
1572: Ben Jonson is born
Jonson was born, a Londoner, a month after his father died, and nine years after the birth of Shakespeare. His mother re-married, to a bricklayer, for whom Ben…
1564: Shakespeare and Marlowe are born
If Christopher Marlowe had not been killed in a tavern brawl at the age of twenty-nine, he might have equalled his exact contemporary William Shakespeare as poet and…
Latest news on the books
Oyez! Oyez! Latest news on the books! All three volumes of Jeremy Taylor’s brief chapters on world history, written under the name of Dean Swift for the website…
Sales of General History in book form – news!
Sales of Volume I and II of General History in book form are advancing sedately on line. Wherever you live in the world you can contact www.amazon.com or…
More about THE BOOK
The first (and second) volume of General History in print – some news With a book presentation on September 13 at midday, held in the famous Orchid Gardens…