Our Island Story
Our Island Story

Author: H. E. Marshall

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-02-20

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 1625583745

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Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.

The Story of England
The Story of England

Author: Samuel Harding

Publisher: Perennial Press

Published: 2018-03-10

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1531265014

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From the city of Calais, on the northern coast of France, one may look over the water on a clear day and see the white cliffs of Dover, in England. At this point the English Channel is only twenty-one miles wide. But this narrow water has dangerous currents, and often fierce winds sweep over it, so that small ships find it hard to cross. This rough Channel has more than once spoiled the plans of England's enemies, and the English people have many times thanked God for their protecting seas.

Richard Coeur de Lion
Richard Coeur de Lion

Author: Katherine H. Terrell

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2018-06-30

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1770486844

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The Middle English romance of Richard Coeur de Lion transforms the historical Richard I of England—a Frenchman by upbringing, who spent only four months of his reign in England, and who once joked that he would sell London to finance his Crusade if he could only find a buyer—into an aggressively English king. This act of historical revision involves the invention of several fantastic elements that give Richard the superhuman force necessary to unite the English nation and elevate it above all others. Springing from a supernatural birth and endowed with exceptional strength and an insatiable and transgressive appetite, Richard embodies a vision of triumphant Englishness that humiliates and decimates England’s foes, whether they be French, German, or Muslim. Katherine Terrell’s faithful but poetic new modern English translation is fully annotated. Appendices include materials on cannibalism, the Crusades, and British national myths.