More than 350 years after the Roman conquest of Britain, Rome fell and the Dark Ages began. This milestone in world history started in the late fourth century C.E. A new Wondrium course details what happened next. […]
The ancient site of Sutton Hoo has a large amount of bodies with broken necks or decapitations. Located near Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, the burial site dates back to the 7th century C.E. This week on Wondrium Shorts, dig into its “ghost bodies.” […]
Jennifer Paxton presented Wondrium’s wildly successful series “Celtic World.” Before that, she took the lead on “1066: The Year That Changed Everything.” She returns for “England: From the Fall of Rome to the Norman Conquest.” […]
The Black Death changed a lot of things in Walsham. One was how peasants viewed work and under what circumstances they were willing to do so. […]
Before the Black Death got to Walsham, the Bury St. Edmunds monastery had many visitors, giving the people of Walsham a heads-up. […]
After the plague hit England, people had a hard time coping with it. Nobles obviously had an easier time than peasants but it still affected everybody. […]
The sacking of the Summer Palace by the Western powers was the final act that symbolized the end of the centuries-old might of Imperial China. […]
By June of 1842, the British fleet had occupied Amoy and Shanghai, as well as a series of strategic islands and fortresses, commanding all maritime access to the southeast coast of China. The Chinese capitulated, and signed the Treaty of Nanking. […]
The dumping of 1300 tons of opium in the river was the culmination of an anti-opium campaign by Lin Zexu. He was appointed by the Manchus to oversee the suppression of of the opium trade in Canton. […]
One aspect of the ancient Irish culture forgotten partly due to British dominance was the Irish language. In the 19th century, different attempts were made to revive the language. The Gaelic League was the most prominent player in this challenge. […]
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