The Union Jack: The Story of the British Flag
by Nick Groom
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Known the world over as a symbol of the UK, the Union Jack is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick. Groom's original history covers the controversies over the Union Jack - as a symbol of Empire and a symbol exploited by ultra-rightwing political groups.Tags
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Nick Groom traces the true origins of the vampire: from the Enlightenment, when the creature embodied human fears about the theology, philosophy, medicine, and science, to more recent times, when it emerged as an unlikely hero of the marginalized and exclude.
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2006
- People/Characters
- King Alfred; Æthelstan, King of the English; Ecgberht, King of Wessex; Canute the Great (King of Denmark, England and Norway); Edward the Confessor, King of England; Harold II Godwinson (show all 34); Offa, King of Mercia; William I, the Conqueror; Richard I, the Lionheart, King of England; Richard II, King of England; Edward III, King of England; Henry IV, King of England; Owain Glyndŵr; Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March; Sir Edmund Mortimer; Sir Henry Percy (aka Harry Hotspur); Harald Hardrada; Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria; William Camden; Edward I, King of England; Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Wales; Dafydd ap Llywelyn; Henry III, King of England; Henry VII, King of England; Henry VIII, King of England; Robert the Bruce, King of Scots; Brian Boru; Kenneth MacAlpin, King of the Picts; John Balliol, King of Scots; Mary, Queen of Scots; James VI and I, King of Scots and King of England; Oliver Cromwell; William III, King of England; James II and VII, King of England, Ireland, and Scotland
- Important events
- Glyndŵr Rising; Laws in Wales Acts (1535-1542); The Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639-1651); Battle of Bannockburn; Wars of Scottish Independence; Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649–53) (show all 7); Jacobite Rising (1715 | 1745)
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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