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Entry: English History - A Condensed Version for the Average London Tourist - A21382823
Author: Uncle Travelling Matt (the Hoopy) Esq. - U168592

Flea Market Rescue.

Original Entry here; A39690615

Original PR thread here; F10939611?thread=5783886

I think there was some concerns I may have jumped all over a newbie with this, but I still feel we would have arrived at the same outcome, an Entry to be proud of.

Enjoy

Oh, and if people feel it would work better just as English History - A Condensed Version, I can remove the London stuff.

Although I think it works as is

It works for me

and me

It's good.

But come on, ref! Agincourt was never offside.

The flags went up a little too quickly perhaps?

Ah well.

Thanks Pin.

You seem to jump from the arrival of the Romans to that of the Vikings without mentioning the Anglo-Saxons' arrival in the 4th/5th centuries.

Love it .

Two things:

>> and the Vikings (and their ilk) soon become the Anglo-Saxons<<
Woah there...they didn't *become* the Anglo-Saxons. The two peoples were separate.

It mentions Agincourt in 1415, but doesn't mention the embarrassing fact that by 1453 England had lost everything in France but Calais, and that France officially won the war.

Good work

You've missed out The Anarchy (1135-54), when Stephen and Matilda had a bit of a fight over the throne. Oh and:

Key provision of the document; even the King is not above The Law.
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Key provision of the document: even the King is not above The Law.

Alex

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Exactly.
What about King Alfred, the Anglo-Saxon king who opposed the Vikings
?
I know it's not an in-depth study, but you can't miss out the fundamentals.

Cheers all, I'll amend it over the weekend and add the bits I've missed (which I know you all would let me know! )

If you're going to include London winning the right to stage the 2012 Olympics, you could include England winning the Jules Rimet trophy in 1966.

1066 and 1966: the two key dates in English history!

ugh. Football. bleurgh.

I'll see what I can do...

There we go, all updated. Hope it's covered the fundamentals now, and kept its style

This entry gets better every time I read it . But to go with that praise, I'd have to find something to harrumph about:

>>Come the 1950s, the victorious English have kicked Winston to one-side after the war<<

One-side? Does it need that hyphen?

Much better now.
Really good.

However, this sentence is a bit anachronistic:
"When the Romans take over England..."

It's like saying, "When the Pilgrim Fathers arrived in the USA..."
There was no England until the English (Anglo-Saxons) arrived about 400 years later.

How about re-naming the section "4th and 5th Centuries" something snappier, eg. "The English Arrive", or "The Coming of the Anglo-Saxons"?

Or at least beefing up the heading: "4th and 5th Centuries: the Anglo-Saxons arrive"

The same could go for all the other currently rather bland headings:
"60 AD - The Romans arrive"

Doing this would give the headings a bit more meaning than the current numbers.

Updated once more

Headings beefier and a few minor corrections made

"The 12th Century: Anarchy in the UK
By the middle of the 1500s..."

Hmm. Can this be right?