Tag: United Kingdom

Popular bathing beaches According to topschoolsintheusa, England is surrounded by many wonderful beaches. Whether traditional spa resorts or modern water sports centers – there is something for every taste. Beautiful beaches and dunes typical of this area stretch along the 250 km long north-west coast. Blackpool is the most famous seaside resort here. Brighton is…

The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century was seething with ferments and initiatives, with tensions and contrasts, proceeding on the thread of remarkable continuity. One of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, WB Yeats (1865-1939), flourished on the impulse of renewal of the Celtic revival, and an exemplary playwright such as JM…

Foreign policy: On July 1, 1997, Great Britain and Northern Ireland handed over their crown colony, Hong Kong, to the People’s Republic of China in accordance with the treaty. After British troops had participated in the UN peacekeeping mission in Bosnia since 1992, the British government has now shown itself uncompromising towards the Serbian President…

THE RESUMPTION OF THE DRAMA The really new and important phenomenon of the second post-war period is finally represented by the amazing resumption of the drama. With Look Back in Anger (1956; Remember with anger) by J. Osborne (1929-94), a period not only of salutary social rebellion, but of dramatic wealth erupted in Britain. In the plays…

On September 18, 2014, 55.3% of the voters in Scotland voted against Scottish independence in a referendum. In the aftermath of the failed independence referendum, Prime Minister Cameron announced a far-reaching constitutional reform aimed at increasing the power of the Scottish regional parliament. Numerous British politicians had promised the Scots greater autonomy if they remained…

The court portrait school itself was dominated by mediocre English and Flemish painters. The work of the miniaturists N. Hilliard and I. Oliver, on the other hand, was an original and high-level artistic manifestation. In the second half of the century England approached Renaissance architecture with a casual and somewhat crude eclecticism, which uses French…

In the House of Commons elections on May 1, 1997, the Labor Party won an overwhelming victory over the Conservatives, which ended their eighteen-year rule (since 1979). The Labor Party, which received 419 seats (the Conservative Party only 165) and which achieved the best election result in its history, appointed the new Prime Minister with…

CULTURE: ART. FROM THE ROMANS TO THE NORMANS, ANGLO-SAXON ARCHITECTURE In the six centuries that go from the end of the Roman domination (ca. 400) to the Norman conquest (1066) the architectural activity was concentrated above all in the sec. VII-VIII and X-XI. Little remains of Anglo-Saxon architecture. Widespread schemes seem to have been that…

In the general election in early May 1979, the Conservative Party, which has been politically led by M. Thatcher since 1975, won a major election; it received 339 and the Labor Party 268 seats. With a strict austerity program (especially dismantling of the welfare state), accompanied, among other things. by changing the tax system, the…

THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AND PALLADIAN ARCHITECTURE A new phase of English architecture opened in the second decade of the seventeenth century with the activity of Inigo Jones, who put an end to the empiricism of Elizabethan and Jacobite architecture by adopting a rigorous Palladian language (Queen’s House, 1616-35; Banqueting Hall of Whitehall, 1619-22; Covent Garden…

With the attack on Poland on September 1, 1939, National Socialist Germany triggered World War II. Determined by its declaration of guarantee to the Polish state, Great Britain and Northern Ireland declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. Hitler, who had not expected British intervention until the end, was surprised by the declaration of…

THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN THE EIGHTEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES Since the eighteenth century, in connection with the development of the steel industry, a notable current of engineering architecture was born (bridges, pavilions) which used the new materials – iron and steel – for the new functions, with precociously rational aesthetic results (bridge over the…

At the urging of King George V, MacDonald took over a coalition government (National Government) in August 1931, which granted powers and on September 21, 1931, removed the pound from the gold standard, which had hitherto been regarded as an immovable pillar of the world economy. The October elections gave this largely conservative government a…

The contributions of the inventor W. Friese-Greene corresponded, in the decade 1896-1906, to those of the pioneers RW Paul, CM Hepworth, J. Williamson and GA Smith. Williamson and Smith, both photographers, were among the leading exponents of the so-called Brighton School which pioneered the techniques, syntax and genres of the future film industry on an…

Between the First and Second World Wars, the problems that had already arisen in the second half of the Victorian Age worsened for Great Britain and Northern Ireland: In view of the considerable deficit in modernization in the old industries (coal, steel, iron, textiles, shipbuilding) and permanent unemployment, the British took Economic empire in power….

CULTURE: MUSIC. FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE “ENGLISH VIRGINALISTS” The first precise information on musical activities in Great Britain dates back to the 10th century. VII, when the practice of Gregorian chant was introduced to the island. The musical evolution since then took place parallel to that which took place in the major countries of…

British history, part of the history of the British Isles and Western Europe since the Stone Age. There were also contacts to Northern Europe and the Mediterranean region. Since the 4th / 3rd Century BC, According to Pharmacylib, the British Isles were under the influence of the Celts, who mixed with the local population, such as…

Two genres, masque and pantomime, can be considered the historical antecedents of English ballet. The first genre, to which authors such as Ben Johnson and John Milton contributed, experienced its moment of greatest splendor in the century. XVII when Inigo Jones, at the dawn of a career then devoted entirely to architecture, devoted himself to the creation…

The economic development of Great Britain was characterized by a decline in competitiveness in the last third of the 19th century. This slowly eroded the foundations of British power, even if Great Britain was still able to maintain its position as the leading economic world power until the last quarter of the century, because the…

As in all Western European countries, the theater, after the long eclipse following the breakup of the Roman Empire, was reborn in the churches and then overflowed into the squares and streets and passed from the control of the clergy to that of the corporations. A typical genre was the miracle, or mystery, whose maximum…

The foreign policy was up to the First World War was determined by peacekeeping outwards, with the UK as a saturated power avoid the cost of war (at least in Europe, because overseas there were over 200 but usually limited military operations), and by a policy of reforms, with which the inner peace in the…

The experiences of that vast group of operators linked to Laban’s theories on the so-called modern educational dance later converged, in the sixties and seventies, into the new currents of British modernism. According to Ehistorylib, this also brought together the legacy of individual pioneers such as M. Morris (1891-1980) and the new orientations determined following the introduction…

The time of Elizabeth I Maria’s death cleared the way for Anna Boleyn’s daughter, Elisabeth I (1558–1603), who steered back to the middle course in church politics. The Act of Uniformity (1559) restored her father’s state church. This resulted in a front position not only against the Catholics, but also against Spain and Scotland, where…

The accession of Elector Georg Ludwig of Hanover as King George I (1714-27), who established the personal union (which lasted until 1837) with this country belonging to the Union of the German Empire, took place without any difficulties, but the king stepped behind the leaders Ministers and parliament. However, the constitutional status of the king…

  Following the example of Canada, the following became Dominions in the course of time: Australia in 1901, New Zealand and Newfoundland in 1907, South African Union in 1910. The prominent role of the Dominions was documented in the imperial conferences held since 1887 between the British government and the Dominions. It was also during…

Cromwell’s rule was based only on his personality and collapsed after his death (9/3/1658). His son Richard Cromwell, who succeeded him in the office of “Lord Protector” (September 3, 1658– May 25, 1659), as well as Parliament, proved unable to cope with the situation. The cost of the army and warfare had ruined state finances,…

British Empire and Commonwealth [- k ɔ mənwelθ], English British Empire [ br ɪ t ɪ ʃ empa ɪ ə], since the end of the 19th century, more and more British Commonwealth of Nations [ br ɪ t ɪ ʃ komənwelθ ɔ v ne ɪ ʃ nz], since the Second world war Commonwealth of Nations….

Jacob I (1603-25), great-great-nephew of Henry VIII, had a high opinion of the divine right of kings, but initially tried to avoid conflicts with parliament. In 1605, the powder conspiracy forced him to crack down on the Catholics. His plan to unite England and Scotland under constitutional law also turned out to be premature. There…

British Isles, English British Isles [ br ɪ t ɪ ʃ a ɪ lz], the Northwest European Continental Shelf seated archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean with the main islands of Great Britain and Ireland, the Shetland and Orkney Islands, the Hebrides, the Isle of Man, Anglesey and Wight as well as many smaller islands with…