British History by Letter - E

Roman name for the northern city of York

Two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England

 

First Anglo-Saxon king to turn his back on paganism and convert to Christianity

Legendary sword of King Arthur, known as Caledfwlch in Welsh

Queen who led England into her 'Golden Age', saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the end of the Tudor dynasty

First major battle of the English civil war

Central bank of the United Kingdom founded in 1694

Powerful trading company that governed large parts of the Indian sub-continent with a private military larger than most countries had at the time

Royal Navy ship captained by James Cook on his voyage to Australia and New Zealand

Collection of marble sculptures originally part of the Parthenon in Athens, currently housed in the British Museum

Co-author of the Communist Manifesto alongside Karl Marx, first published in 1848

Title given to Queen Victoria upon the founding of the British Raj

Subsequent executions of the leaders of this armed insurrection widely contributed to increased support for Irish Independence

King who abdicated in 1936 over his proposal to marry an American divorcee

Secret code used by the German navy during WWII that was cracked by Alan Turing and his team of codebreakers at Bletchley Park

Precursor to the European Union, joined by the United Kingdom alongside Ireland and Denmark in 1973

Agreement signed between the UK and Scottish governments, paving the way for a future referendum on independence