The English and their History

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Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. " Please Please Me – The Beatles". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 30 May 2012 . Retrieved 21 December 2011. Everett, Walter (2001). The Beatles As Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514105-4 . Retrieved 31 March 2014.

Pang, May (2008). Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4299-9397-5. Archived from the original on 11 January 2016 . Retrieved 7 April 2015. This very popular music hall song could be heard being performed throughout Victorian London’s many theatres. The origins to the lyrics however, appear to stem from two possible sources.Beatles '1' is fastest selling album ever". CNN. Reuters. 6 December 2000. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012 . Retrieved 26 February 2012. The story goes that the king arrived during a storm and mistaking a shallow puddle for a deep ditch steered his horse in that direction. Both horse and rider became trapped in the mire and had to be hauled out; infuriated and no doubt embarrassed by the humiliation, he vowed never to return to the town. Geographically, the Viking Age covered Scandinavian lands (modern Denmark, Norway and Sweden), as well as territories under North Germanic dominance, mainly the Danelaw, including Scandinavian York, the administrative centre of the remains of the Kingdom of Northumbria, [69] parts of Mercia, and East Anglia. [70] Viking navigators opened the road to new lands to the north, west and east, resulting in the foundation of independent settlements in the Shetland, Orkney, and Faroe Islands; Iceland; Greenland; [71] and L'Anse aux Meadows, a short-lived settlement in Newfoundland, circa 1000. [72] The Greenland settlement was established around 980, during the Medieval Warm Period, and its demise by the mid-15th century may have been partly due to climate change. [73] The Viking Rurik dynasty took control of territories in Slavic and Finnic-dominated areas of Eastern Europe; they annexed Kiev in 882 to serve as the capital of the Kievan Rus'. [74] Davies, Hunter (1968). The Beatles (Revised 2009ed.). New York & London: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-33874-4. Archived from the original on 22 January 2023 . Retrieved 31 March 2014.

The Beatles: The FBI Files. 2007. ISBN 978-1-59986-256-9 . Retrieved 31 March 2014. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) [ permanent dead link] Tombs traces the history of England as a kingdom, as an international power, as a nationality and as a cultural force. As well as the rulers, institutions, alliances and conquests, he examines the ideas, emotions, words and images that constitute national memory. He begins with the Roman invasion of Britain, recounts the early history of multiple petty kingdoms on the archipelago, and describes the complex aftermath of the 11th-century Norman Conquest. He pursues some fascinating byways (notably his account of the 16th-century emergence of Latinised English, of invigorated vernacular English and of Tyndale’s English-language Bible), but inevitably many readers will fasten on to the topicality of his analysis of the past 450 years.Anglo-Scandinavian is an academic term referring to the people, and archaeological and historical periods during the 8th to 13th centuries, in which there was migration to—and occupation of—the British Isles by Scandinavian peoples generally known in English as Vikings. It is used in distinction from Anglo-Saxon. Similar terms exist for other areas, such as Hiberno-Norse for Ireland and Scotland.

Kings and princes were historically known by the names of the countries over which they and their families ruled. Kings and queens therefore signed themselves by their first names only, a tradition in the United Kingdom which has continued to the present day.

Beatles Refused to Play for Segregated Audiences, Contract Reveal". Huffington Post. 16 November 2011. Archived from the original on 16 May 2017 . Retrieved 17 February 2018. The Franks normally called them Northmen or Danes, while for the English they were generally known as Danes or heathen, and the Irish knew them as pagans or gentiles. [62] In Tombs’s depiction, the succession of King James VI of Scotland as England’s monarch after Queen Elizabeth’s death in 1603 proved “disastrous” for the English, for in the House of Stuart “the country acquired Europe’s most hapless dynasty”. The single monarchy did not even protect England from Scottish invasions, which until 1745 proved more frequent and disruptive than ever. After the Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707, there was long-standing English resentment at the growing influence of Scots in English political and cultural life, while Scotland kept its own legal and educational systems. Tombs’s book is full of arresting details, quirky sidelights, telling quotes and laconic humour According to Gould, the Beatles changed the way people listened to popular music and experienced its role in their lives. From what began as the Beatlemania fad, the group's popularity grew into what was seen as an embodiment of sociocultural movements of the decade. As icons of the 1960s counterculture, Gould continues, they became a catalyst for bohemianism and activism in various social and political arenas, fuelling movements such as women's liberation, gay liberation and environmentalism. [438] According to Peter Lavezzoli, after the "more popular than Jesus" controversy in 1966, the Beatles felt considerable pressure to say the right things and "began a concerted effort to spread a message of wisdom and higher consciousness". [169]