DEMANDING DINERS
The Tudor royal kitchen had a huge job feeding the court. In just one year during the reign of Elizabeth I, the extensive shopping list included 8,200 sheep, 1,870 pigs, 1,240 oxen, 53 wild boar and 2,300 deer.
KINGLY COMPLAINTS
The so-called Grand Remonstrance, a list of grievances presented by the English Parliament to Charles I in 1641, listed no fewer than 204 complaints about the king’s government. The Civil Wars broke out under a year later.
IMPERIAL EXPANSION
When Victoria came to the throne in 1837, the British empire spanned 2 million square miles. Within 25 years, it had expanded to encompass an incredible 9.5 million square miles, and tens of millions more subjects.
CROWNING GLORY
When he conquered Northumbria in AD 927, Æthelstan is widely thought…
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