He lives and works in Scotland. Birthplace: England, Cheshire Nationality: United Kingdom Art Forms: Sculpture William Morris Strawberry Thief, Self-portrait, Acanthus William Morris was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts...
Portrait of Louis XIV (gray pastel on paper by Charles Le Brun, 1667, Louvre Museum) By the early 1680s, Louis had greatly augmented French influence in the world. Domestically, he successfully increased the influence of the crown and its authority over the church and aristocracy, thus conso...
The Prairie King Arcade System is an arcade game machine that allows the player to play Journey of the Prairie King.
•The “most important exhibition of Russian portraits ever to take place at a British museum” opens at the National Portrait Gallery off Trafalgar Square today.The portraits of key figures from Russia spanning the period from 1867 to 1914 come from Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery which is ...
Take a look into the rolls featuring the Act of Union with Scotland (1707) and the Articles of Union with Scotland (1706) Examining England's Act of Union with Scotland (1707) and the Articles of Union with... Video: © UK Parliament Education Service (A Britannica Publishing Partner)...
Partridge, 1844; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.(more) It was, in retrospect, “the least sensible and satisfactory time in her whole life”; but at the time it was exciting and enjoyable, the more so because of her romantic friendship with Lord Melbourne, the prime minister. ...
Young, Portrait of an Age: Victorian England, new annotated ed. (1977), a delightful and very influential short work; and Asa Briggs, The Age of Improvement (1959, reissued 1979). José Harris, The Penguin Social History of Britain: Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain Taken 1870–1914 (...
John IIJohn II, portrait by an unknown French artist, 14th century; in the Louvre, Paris.(more) While he was in Bordeaux, the French king concluded a two-year truce with his captors and began to discuss peace terms on a basis of abandoning Aquitaine in full sovereignty to Edward. Meanwh...
Christian IIChristian II, portrait by Jan Gossart; in Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark.(more) The final years of the Kalmar Union were marked in Sweden by the struggle between the archbishop, Gustav Trolle (inaugurated 1516), and Sten Sture the Younger. The archbishop was head of the council, an...
Philip VI was the first French king of the Valois dynasty. Reigning at the outbreak of the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453), he had no means of imposing on his country the measures necessary for the maintenance of his monarchical power, though he continu