World History
Flagship Portsmouth Museum - Home of three historic British warships: Henry VII's doomed flagship Mary Rose, Nelson's flagship HMS Victory, and the world's first iron battleship, HMS Warrior. Site also provides additional information about the Royal Naval Museum and Action Stations.
From the site:
King Richard I ordered the construction of a dockyard in Portsmouth, and granted the town its first charter, in 1194. Eighteen years later, his brother King John instructed that the dockyard be enclosed "by a good and strong wall".
Henry VII ordered the construction of the world's first dry dock in the dockyard in 1495. It was designed by Sir Reginald Bray, architect of the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Abbey.
Henry VIII made the dockyard his fleet construction centre, and when Charles II created the Royal Navy in 1670, he gave Portsmouth the status of Royal Dockyard. With this came new slips, wharfs, storehouses and the first stone docks.The Great Ship Basin and six surrounding dry docks - one now occupied by HMS Victory and another by Mary Rose - are one of the surviving legacies of the great age of sail.
Sail's golden age, between 1750 to 1850, saw the yard at peak production because of almost continuous war. To this period the dockyard owes its glorious brick storehouses, residences, and ropehouse, the latter rebuilt after a famous arson attack by Jack the Painter, a sympathiser with the cause of the American rebels.
- Henry V - King Of England
Henry V - King of England Henry V of England and Agincourt was the son of Henry IV Bolingbroke, from the House of Lancaster, and Mary de Bohun, the daughter of the seventh earl of Hereford. At the age of 12, King Richard II knighted him as duke of Lancaster....
- Henry Vii
Henry VIIHenry Tudor was born to Margaret Beaufort of the House of Lancaster—the “red roses†in 15th century England’s War of the Roses—and Edmund Tudor, the earl of Richmond, who died in Henry’s infancy. The War...
- Mary, Queen Of Scots
The queen of Scotland from 1542 until 1567, Mary was born on December 8, 1542, at Linlithgow Palace, Scotland, the only child of King James V of Scotland, who died six days after she was born. When Mary was five, her French mother, Mary of Guise, sent...
- Soldiers Of Gloucestershire Museum
Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum - Gloucester's museum portraying the history of regiments, the Glorious Glosters Regiment and theirs antecedents. Also features an online shop selling military books, and regimental souvenirs as well as genealogy...
- Constitutionalism And The Cloister: Matthew Paris And The Crisis Of Royal Monastic Patronage In Thirteenth Century England
Constitutionalism and the Cloister: Matthew Paris and the Crisis of Royal Monastic Patronage in Thirteenth Century England. This is from the Winter 2005 Michigan Journal of History. It was written by Jason Colman. From the site: On May 14, 1264, the armies...
World History
Flagship Portsmouth Museum
Flagship Portsmouth Museum - Home of three historic British warships: Henry VII's doomed flagship Mary Rose, Nelson's flagship HMS Victory, and the world's first iron battleship, HMS Warrior. Site also provides additional information about the Royal Naval Museum and Action Stations.
From the site:
King Richard I ordered the construction of a dockyard in Portsmouth, and granted the town its first charter, in 1194. Eighteen years later, his brother King John instructed that the dockyard be enclosed "by a good and strong wall".
Henry VII ordered the construction of the world's first dry dock in the dockyard in 1495. It was designed by Sir Reginald Bray, architect of the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Abbey.
Henry VIII made the dockyard his fleet construction centre, and when Charles II created the Royal Navy in 1670, he gave Portsmouth the status of Royal Dockyard. With this came new slips, wharfs, storehouses and the first stone docks.The Great Ship Basin and six surrounding dry docks - one now occupied by HMS Victory and another by Mary Rose - are one of the surviving legacies of the great age of sail.
Sail's golden age, between 1750 to 1850, saw the yard at peak production because of almost continuous war. To this period the dockyard owes its glorious brick storehouses, residences, and ropehouse, the latter rebuilt after a famous arson attack by Jack the Painter, a sympathiser with the cause of the American rebels.
- Henry V - King Of England
Henry V - King of England Henry V of England and Agincourt was the son of Henry IV Bolingbroke, from the House of Lancaster, and Mary de Bohun, the daughter of the seventh earl of Hereford. At the age of 12, King Richard II knighted him as duke of Lancaster....
- Henry Vii
Henry VIIHenry Tudor was born to Margaret Beaufort of the House of Lancaster—the “red roses†in 15th century England’s War of the Roses—and Edmund Tudor, the earl of Richmond, who died in Henry’s infancy. The War...
- Mary, Queen Of Scots
The queen of Scotland from 1542 until 1567, Mary was born on December 8, 1542, at Linlithgow Palace, Scotland, the only child of King James V of Scotland, who died six days after she was born. When Mary was five, her French mother, Mary of Guise, sent...
- Soldiers Of Gloucestershire Museum
Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum - Gloucester's museum portraying the history of regiments, the Glorious Glosters Regiment and theirs antecedents. Also features an online shop selling military books, and regimental souvenirs as well as genealogy...
- Constitutionalism And The Cloister: Matthew Paris And The Crisis Of Royal Monastic Patronage In Thirteenth Century England
Constitutionalism and the Cloister: Matthew Paris and the Crisis of Royal Monastic Patronage in Thirteenth Century England. This is from the Winter 2005 Michigan Journal of History. It was written by Jason Colman. From the site: On May 14, 1264, the armies...