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14 December 202111 December 2021 by tombliss

Annals Britannica is currently featured in several newspaper reports currently appearing in the Fenland Citizen, the Ely Standard. the Wisbech Standard and the Sleaford Standard newspapers. Read more about the online survey and timeline of British history and its author Tom Bliss on these websites.

The UK and Ireland 1921

9 December 2021 by tombliss

The Anglo-Irish Treaty Annals Britannica attempts to record events involved in the political separation of Ireland from the rest of the British Isles in 1921. The hundredth anniversary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty is remembered this year: it marked a fundamental change in a stormy relationship which had endured for 750 years and is discussed in … Read more

Lynn News

7 December 2021 by driveby

Annals Britannica is currently featuring on Lynn News. Read more about the online survey and timeline of british history on the Lynn News website.

Emma, Twice Queen of England

6 December 20214 December 2021 by tombliss

Medieval Women Annals Britannica tells of Emma of Normandy (984-1052) who was the second wife and queen of two kings of England and gave birth to sons from each marriage who also ruled England. Ethelred’s Queen Ethelred the Unready took Emma, daughter of the Duke of Normandy, to be his second wife. Ethelred was succeeded … Read more

England and Scotland

7 December 202121 November 2021 by tombliss

Margaret Maid of Norway Annals Britannica mentions one of history’s great what if? questions which concerns Margaret the Maid of Norway, who was the sole remaining heir to the Scottish throne when her grandfather died in 1286. She was three years old and her father, the king of Norway, arranged that she would marry the … Read more

Suez Canal Crisis 1956

10 November 2021 by tombliss

The Suez Crisis 2021 marks the 65th anniversary of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956. Annals Fresh Start and Readjustment recounts events leading up to the nationalisation of the Anglo-French owned Suez Canal in June 1956 by General Gamal A. Nasser, the Egyptian president. Israeli troops invaded Gaza in late October and the Egyptian army … Read more

British Empire and Slavery

9 November 2021 by tombliss

The beginning of the English Slave Trade The matter of slavery is referred to and discussed in various section of Annals Britannica, a comprehensive review and timeline of British history. Britain first became involved in the transatlantic slave trade when Sir John Hawkins delivered slaves taken from Portuguese slave traders to Spanish colonies in the … Read more

Anniversaries 2021

9 November 2021 by tombliss

2021 Literary and Dramatic 60th anniversaries Annals Britannica, a comprehensive review and timeline of British history, records the 60th anniversary of some notable artistic ventures which happened in 1961. The satirical magazine Private Eye was first published in 1961. It became noted for humorous but wounding lampoons of leading figures in public life and also frequently … Read more

Blissworks Launches Annals Britannica Online

22 October 2021 by driveby

Blissworks has just launched ‘Annals Britannica’ online. This book documents the history of Britain, from its beginnings as a geographic entity off the coast of Europe up to the maelstrom that engulfed us all when the COVID-19 virus swept around the world.