The ‘male’ English National Dress mentions the colours of St George. The ‘female’ English National Dress design uses the light Blue of St Edmund the Old English King. Both orders of dress are functional, elegant, simple and yet small making. They use woollen, natural leather, steel, linen as well as straightforward dyes. Strong silver jewellery…
Read More871 AD to 899 AD as well as to Althelfleda and also Edward the Senior to 924 AD. ” He was King over all England …”. It was to Alfred– Soldier, Scholar, Conscientious as well as committed Ruler– to which, all the English People would search for advice and delivery. Who was Alfred? Background to…
Read MoreLots of people have questioned who the English really are and where they come from. This timeline sets out to answer that. The English are a Germanic race of people. Engles, Jutes and also Saxons. It discovers the English to be a very old people certainly. It explains several of the enigmas regarding the beginnings…
Read MoreAfter 400 years in Britain the Romans leave 410 :- Honorius, the Roman Emperor in Britain states he has to go back to Rome to protect his residence land from assaults by Germanic tribes and the British need to take over the obligation of protecting themselves from Jutes, Angles, Saxons, Picts and Scots. The English…
Read MoreThe Age of the Vikings As we have discovered in the first part of this History of the English, our very early forefathers came to this Island, initially as raiders and some as hirelings, invited by a Romanic British Warlord (Vortigern,) to eliminate the Picts of the North but who later switched on their Romanic-British…
Read More