Thomas Walsingham

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What’s the Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Periods of American Literature

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5 Fascinating British Coronation Objects

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Where Do Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories About the Rothschild Family Come From?

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

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What Is the Difference Between a Typhoon and a Super Typhoon?

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14 Tough Questions Answered

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8 of the Largest Empires in History

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Died	c.1422
Notable Works	“Historia Anglicana”
Subjects Of Study	England • history of United Kingdom

Wace

Anglo-Norman author

Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

English politician and author

William Camden

British historian

Roger Of Hoveden

English historian

William Of Newburgh

English historian

Henry Knighton

British historian

John Stow

English author

Peter Langtoft

English historian

Robert Of Gloucester

English historian

Thomas Hearne

British historian

Ralph Of Coggeshall

English historian

Edward Hall

English historian

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton

British historian

Florence Of Worcester

British historian

Holinshed, Raphael: Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande

Raphael Holinshed

English chronicler

John Capgrave

English scholar

Gervase Of Canterbury

English historian

Jean Le Bel

French historian

John Rushworth

English historian

Thomas Madox

British historian

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