The Northumbrians: North-East England and Its People: A New History

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Parsons, Julie (4 May 2002). The First Battle for Scottish Independence: The Battle of Dunnichen, A.D.685 (MA thesis). East Tennessee State University. Fraser, James E (2009). From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0748612321. Astronomer George Airy designed the legendary Airy Transit Circle telescope, which defined the Prime Meridian at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. In the time of Bede, there were five languages in Britain: English, British, Irish, Pictish, and Latin. [c] [128] Northumbrian was one of four distinct dialects of Old English, along with Mercian, West Saxon, and Kentish. [129] Analysis of written texts, brooches, runes and other available sources shows that Northumbrian vowel pronunciation differed from West Saxon. [130]

The Lindisfarne Gospels". British Broadcasting Corp. Archived from the original on 11 August 2010 . Retrieved 2 September 2013. Northumbria is featured in the TV series Vikings through the character of King Aelle (played by actor Ivan Kaye) and his daughter Judith (played by Jennie Jacques). In the show, Aelle forges an alliance with Ecbert of Wessex through a marriage between Judith and Ecbert's son Aethelwulf. Judith betrays Aethelwulf through an affair with the former Viking-turned-cleric Athelstan resulting in the birth of Alfred the Great. Ecbert enlists the aid of Ragnar Lothbrok as a mercenary in his attempt to dominate Mercia and Ragnar is later captured and killed by Aelle who is then killed by Ragnar's sons. Bede (1969). Colgrave, Bertram; Mynors, R.A.B. (eds.). Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-822202-6. (Parallel Latin text and English translation with English notes.) Collingwood, Bruce (1882). Northumbrian Minstrelsy: A Collection of the Ballads, Melodies and Small-Pipe Tunes of Northumbria. Newcastle upon Tyne: Society of Antiquarians of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. pp.iv–x. The battle ended with a decisive Pictish victory which severely weakened Northumbria's power in northern Britain. Ecgfrith was killed in battle, along with the greater part of his army. The Pictish victory marked their independence from Northumbria, who never regained their dominance in the north.

The Northern Independence Party (NIP) is a secessionist political party which seeks to make Northern England an independent state under the name Northumbria. [44] [45] [46] The Irish monks who converted Northumbria to Christianity, and established monasteries such as Lindisfarne, brought a style of artistic and literary production. [96] Eadfrith of Lindisfarne produced the Lindisfarne Gospels in an Insular style. [97] Bede (2008). Colgrave, Bertram; McClure; Collins (eds.). Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199537235. Somerville, A. A. & McDonald, R. A. The Viking Age. University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division, 2014. The county is famous for producing some of the most recognisable footballers, actors and engineers in the world.

Fraser, James E. (2006). The Pictish Conquest: The Battle of Dunnichen 685 and the Birth of Scotland. Stroud, Gloucester: Tempus. Rollason, David (25 September 2003). Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81335-8. Higham, N.J. (1993). The kingdom of Northumbria: AD350–1100. Dover, NH: A. Sutton. ISBN 9780862997304. Chalmers, George (1887). Caledonia: or a historical and topographical account of North Britain, from the most ancient to the present times with a dictionary of places chorographical and philological. Vol.1 (newed.). Paisley: Alex. Gardner. Northumbrian University Officers' Training Corps (UOTC): Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland, and Teesside Universities

His conclusions, in all their abundant detail, are revealed in his new book Northumbrians: North-East England and its People, which has its launch event tonight. This proposed state would encompass the entirety of Northern England based upon the full extent of the Kingdom of Northumbria; minus its modern day Scottish regions, and not only the modern region. Lancelot Brown, known as Capability Brown (1715 - 1783), the English landscape gardener (Image: Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Saints [ edit ] Saint Aidan Saint Cuthbert Saint Willibrord Saint Benedict Biscop Saint John of Beverley Name

Activist Josephine played a major role in improving conditions for women in education and public health. The Venerable Bede (673–735) is the most famous author of the Anglo-Saxon Period, and a native of Northumbria. His Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed in 731) has become both a template for later historians and a crucial historical account in its own right, [102] and much of it focuses on Northumbria. [103] [104] He's also famous for his theological works, and verse and prose accounts of holy lives. [105] After the Synod of Whitby, the role of the European continent gained importance in Northumbrian culture. During the end of the eighth century, the scriptorium at Monkwearmouth–Jarrow was producing manuscripts of his works for high demand on the Continent. [106] Crombie, J. (1842). The new statistical account of Scotland, Parish of Aberlemno, Forfarshire . Retrieved 12 February 2009.World Heretige List: Frontiers of the Roman Empire". UNESCO. Archived from the original on 6 May 2017 . Retrieved 5 April 2017. St Cuthbert Reburied in Durham Cathedral". history today. Archived from the original on 13 May 2014 . Retrieved 23 August 2013. Bede's work would not only provide the people of the region with the story of their past but would have far-reaching effects on how history as a whole was understood in the west. He popularized the use of the dating system of BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini, Latin for “In the Year of Our Lord”) which had been invented in c. 525 CE by the monk Dionysius Exiguus (c. 470-544 CE) in an effort to universalize the date of the celebration of Easter for all churches. Ainslie, J (1794). "Map of the county of Forfar or Shire of Angus". National Library of Scotland. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012 . Retrieved 1 September 2009.