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3rd: 10720571 - e123
6th: 10720581 - e126
Suggested Topics on British History for Senior Research Paper and Senior Speech
Anglo-Saxon England: 597 AD - 1066 AD
Medieval England: 400 AD – 1500 AD
Elizabethan England and a little after: 1558 AD - 1600ish AD
Victorian Age: 1837 AD – 1901 AD
Edwardian England: 1901 AD – 1914 AD
Castles or cathedrals
Medieval armor
The Crusades
Plagues
Crime and/or use of public executions
The Great London Fire
The War of the Roses
The Battle of Hastings
The Puritan Movement
The Reformation
The role of women during the Renaissance or medieval period
Printing and publishing during the Renaissance
Arthurian materials
Rise of the sonnet, satire, periodical essay, or English novel
William Wallace (Braveheart)
St. Patrick
The Plantagenets
The Tudors
The Black Prince
Henry VIII…and his wives
Elizabeth I
James I (king after Elizabeth)
Mary Queen of Scots
Thomas Becket
Richard the Lionheart
Bloody Mary
Oliver Cromwell
William Shakespeare
Henry II
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Thomas Becket
Richard II
Robin Hood: Outlaw or Hero
Relics and indulgences
Papal inquisition
Chivalric code
Monastic life in the Middle Ages
Disease and medicine (include bodily humours)
The Children’s Crusade
Knights Templar
The Globe Theatre, costumes and sets, or the Chamberlain’s Men
The Tower of London
Stonehenge
The English Church and any part of its development from the medieval period through the eighteenth century
Inventions, medicine, science, money and banking, entertainment, clothing styles and hair styles, hospitals and hygiene, politics, laws, food, trade and the market place, music, art, or architecture, from the medieval period through the age of enlightenment
Sutton Hoo
Bog Bodies in Great Britain
Halloween
Burke and Hare
The Elephant Man: Joseph Carey Merrick
History of the Penny Dreafuls
http://www.biographyonline.net/people/famous/english.html
http://www.biographyonline.net/british/top-100-scottish.html/comment-page-1/#comments
http://www.biographyonline.net/people/famous/irish.html
http://www.biographyonline.net/british/top-welsh-people.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons
http://www.eupedia.com/ireland/famous_irish_people.shtml
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/10-crimes-that-shook-britain-817163
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_criminals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Irish_criminals
http://www.information-britain.co.uk/famousdates.php
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index_embed.shtml
Your Top 5 List of Topics for the Historical Investigation Research Essay:
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*Note: You may choose a topic other than the suggested topics provided that it either deals with British literature (including writers, books, genres, etc) or British history or deals with World literature (including writers, books, genres, etc) or World history. The topic must be approved by Ms. DeCosta. American literature and American history is not an acceptable topic for the senior research paper because it was the curricular focus during your junior year, not your senior year where British literature and World literature is the focus. Remember when choosing your topic that the research paper is a historical investigation, not a biography.*
Anglo-Saxon England: 597 AD - 1066 AD
- Origins of the Anglo-Saxons
- Roman Influence
- Christianity and its arrival in England
- King Alfred the Great
- The Danish Invasion
- The Norman Conquest
Medieval England: 400 AD – 1500 AD
- Feudal system
- Medieval church
- Chivalry
- Henry VIII
- Crusades
- Wars of the Roses
- Magna Carta and the beginnings of government
- Battle of Hastings and William the Conqueror
- Medieval life and customs
- Black Death
- Chaucer
- Caxton and the printing press
- Rise of the middle class
- Courtly love
- Medieval architecture
Elizabethan England and a little after: 1558 AD - 1600ish AD
- Queen Elizabeth
- Protestant Reformation
- Spanish Armada
- Renaissance
- Christopher Marlowe
- Theater and drama (Globe)
- Elizabethan society and customs
- Elizabethan sports and entertainment
- Elizabethan holidays and festivals
- Mary Queen of Scots
- James I
- Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans
- Civil War between the Cavaliers and the Roundheads
- Restoration
- The Great Fire of London
- Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
Victorian Age: 1837 AD – 1901 AD
- Queen Victoria
- Charles Dickens
- Bronte sisters
- The Great Exhibition of 1851
- Jack the Ripper
- England’s Industrial Revolution
- Victorian morality
- Charles Darwin
- Victorian society and customs
- Victorian sports and entertainment
Edwardian England: 1901 AD – 1914 AD
- Edwardian class system and society
- Belle Époque
- Sinking of the Titanic
- Edwardian society and customs
- H.G. Wells
Castles or cathedrals
Medieval armor
The Crusades
Plagues
Crime and/or use of public executions
The Great London Fire
The War of the Roses
The Battle of Hastings
The Puritan Movement
The Reformation
The role of women during the Renaissance or medieval period
Printing and publishing during the Renaissance
Arthurian materials
Rise of the sonnet, satire, periodical essay, or English novel
William Wallace (Braveheart)
St. Patrick
The Plantagenets
The Tudors
The Black Prince
Henry VIII…and his wives
Elizabeth I
James I (king after Elizabeth)
Mary Queen of Scots
Thomas Becket
Richard the Lionheart
Bloody Mary
Oliver Cromwell
William Shakespeare
Henry II
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Thomas Becket
Richard II
Robin Hood: Outlaw or Hero
Relics and indulgences
Papal inquisition
Chivalric code
Monastic life in the Middle Ages
Disease and medicine (include bodily humours)
The Children’s Crusade
Knights Templar
The Globe Theatre, costumes and sets, or the Chamberlain’s Men
The Tower of London
Stonehenge
The English Church and any part of its development from the medieval period through the eighteenth century
Inventions, medicine, science, money and banking, entertainment, clothing styles and hair styles, hospitals and hygiene, politics, laws, food, trade and the market place, music, art, or architecture, from the medieval period through the age of enlightenment
Sutton Hoo
Bog Bodies in Great Britain
Halloween
Burke and Hare
The Elephant Man: Joseph Carey Merrick
History of the Penny Dreafuls
http://www.biographyonline.net/people/famous/english.html
http://www.biographyonline.net/british/top-100-scottish.html/comment-page-1/#comments
http://www.biographyonline.net/people/famous/irish.html
http://www.biographyonline.net/british/top-welsh-people.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons
http://www.eupedia.com/ireland/famous_irish_people.shtml
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/10-crimes-that-shook-britain-817163
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_criminals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Irish_criminals
http://www.information-britain.co.uk/famousdates.php
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index_embed.shtml
Your Top 5 List of Topics for the Historical Investigation Research Essay:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
*Note: You may choose a topic other than the suggested topics provided that it either deals with British literature (including writers, books, genres, etc) or British history or deals with World literature (including writers, books, genres, etc) or World history. The topic must be approved by Ms. DeCosta. American literature and American history is not an acceptable topic for the senior research paper because it was the curricular focus during your junior year, not your senior year where British literature and World literature is the focus. Remember when choosing your topic that the research paper is a historical investigation, not a biography.*
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