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92 relations: Adam van Noort, Alfred Woolmer, Anglo-Saxons, Anne Whitney, Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, Bonnie and Clyde, Charles II of England, Charles Reginald Dodwell, Chasuble, Chemise, Chester, Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham, City of London, Collection of Old Ballads, County of the City of Coventry, Coventry, Dictionary of National Biography, Domesday Book, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, Edwin Landseer, Effigy, Ely Cathedral, Evesham Abbey, Fertility rite, Flores Historiarum, George Frederic Watts, Godiva Chocolatier, Godiva Festival, Godiva Procession, Heaven Shall Burn, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Hereford, Herefordshire, History of Coventry, Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, John Collier (painter), Katharine Keats-Rohan, Kingsbury family, Lady Godiva (painting), Lady Godiva in popular culture, Lady Godiva's Operation, Latinisation of names, Leofric, Earl of Mercia, Leominster, Liber Eliensis, Lincolnshire, List of Parliaments of England, Long hair, Lucy of Bolingbroke, Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery, ..., Marina Warner, Mark (currency), Marshall Claxton, Matthew Paris, May Queen, Mercia, Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead, Minster (church), Much Wenlock, Norman conquest of England, Normandy, Old English, Old St Paul's Cathedral, Order of Saint Benedict, Pardon, Paul de Rapin, Percy Folio, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Protestantism, Richard Grafton, Richard II of England, Roger of Wendover, Rood, Salic law, Shel Silverstein, Slip (clothing), Spalding Priory, Stained glass, Stow Minster, Tax, The Times, The Velvet Underground, Thomas Hancock Nunn, Thomas Pennant, Upper class, Veto (album), Voyeurism, White Light/White Heat, William Dugdale, Woolhope, Worcester, Wulviva. Expand index (42 more) »
Adam van Noort
Adam van Noort (1561/62 – 1641) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman and one of the teachers of Peter Paul Rubens.
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Alfred Woolmer
Alfred Joseph Woolmer (1805–1892) was an English painter whose subject matter covered the literary and historical genre.
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Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.
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Anne Whitney
Anne Whitney (September 2, 1821 – January 23, 1915) was an American sculptor and poet.
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Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia
Ælfgar (died c. 1060) was the son of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, by his famous mother Godgifu (Lady Godiva).
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Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow also known as Clyde Champion Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were American criminals who traveled the central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, robbing people and killing when cornered or confronted.
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Charles II of England
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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Charles Reginald Dodwell
Charles Reginald Dodwell (1922–1994) was a British art historian who specialized in the period covering the years 800–1200.
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Chasuble
The chasuble is the outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for the celebration of the Eucharist in Western-tradition Christian churches that use full vestments, primarily in Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran churches.
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Chemise
A chemise or shift is a classic smock, or a modern type of women's undergarment or dress.
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Chester
Chester (Caer) is a walled city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales.
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Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham
The Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham or Chronicle of the Abbey of Evesham, sometimes the Evesham Chronicle, is a medieval chronicle written at and about Evesham Abbey in England.
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City of London
The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.
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Collection of Old Ballads
A Collection of Old Ballads is an anonymous book published 1723 - 1725 in three volumes in London by Roberts and Leach.
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County of the City of Coventry
The County of the City of Coventry was a former county corporate of England which existed between 1451 and 1842.
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Coventry
Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.
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Dictionary of National Biography
The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.
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Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
Dr.
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Edwin Landseer
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals — particularly horses, dogs, and stags.
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Effigy
An effigy is a representation of a specific person in the form of sculpture or some other three-dimensional medium.
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Ely Cathedral
Ely Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
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Evesham Abbey
Evesham Abbey was founded by Saint Egwin at Evesham in Worcestershire, England between 700 and 710 AD following an alleged vision of the Virgin Mary by a swineherd by the name of Eof.
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Fertility rite
Fertility rites are religious rituals that reenact, either actually or symbolically, sexual acts and/or reproductive processes: 'sexual intoxication is a typical component of the...rites of the various functional gods who control reproduction, whether of man, beast, cattle, or grains of seed'.
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Flores Historiarum
The Flores Historiarum (Flowers of History) is the name of two different (though related) Latin chronicles by medieval English historians that were created in the 13th century, associated originally with the Abbey of St Albans.
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George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts, (London 23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was an English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement.
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Godiva Chocolatier
Godiva Chocolatier is a Belgian manufacturer of chocolates and related products.
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Godiva Festival
The Godiva Festival is a free three day music festival held each year in the War Memorial Park, Coventry, England, named after the city's famous former inhabitant Lady Godiva.
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Godiva Procession
The Godiva Procession is an annual procession in the city of Coventry, England, which re-enacts the story of Lady Godiva.
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Heaven Shall Burn
Heaven Shall Burn are a German metal band from Saalfeld, formed in 1996.
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Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum (also known as The Herbert) is a museum, art gallery, records archive, learning centre and creative arts facility on Jordan Well, Coventry, England.
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Hereford
Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England.
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Herefordshire
Herefordshire is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council.
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History of Coventry
This article is about the history of Coventry, a city in the West Midlands, England.
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Holy Trinity Church, Coventry
Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, is a parish church of the Church of England in Coventry City Centre, West Midlands, England.
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John Collier (painter)
John Maler Collier OBE RP ROI (27 January 1850 – 11 April 1934) was a leading English artist, and an author.
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Katharine Keats-Rohan
Dr Katharine Stephanie Benedicta Keats-Rohan (born 1957) is a British history researcher, specialising in prosopography.
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Kingsbury family
The Kingsbury family is a family descended from royal ancestors of medieval England, from the Kingdom of Mercia.
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Lady Godiva (painting)
Lady Godiva is an 1897 painting by English artist John Collier, who worked in the style of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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Lady Godiva in popular culture
Lady Godiva was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry, in England, covering herself only with her long hair, in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants.
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Lady Godiva's Operation
"Lady Godiva's Operation" is a song by American avant-garde rock band The Velvet Underground, appearing on their second album, White Light/White Heat (1968).
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Latinisation of names
Latinisation or Latinization is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name (or word) in a Latin style.
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Leofric, Earl of Mercia
Leofric (died 31 August or 30 September 1057) was an Earl of Mercia.
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Leominster
Leominster is a market town in Herefordshire, England, and is located at the confluence of the River Lugg and its tributary the River Kenwater, approximately north of the city of Hereford and approx 7 miles south of the Shropshire border, 11 miles from Ludlow in Shropshire.
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Liber Eliensis
The Liber Eliensis is a 12th-century English chronicle and history, written in Latin.
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Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.
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List of Parliaments of England
This is a list of Parliaments of England from the reign of King Henry III (when the Curia Regis developed into a body known as Parliament) until the creation of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1707.
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Long hair
Long hair is a hairstyle where the head hair is allowed to grow to a considerable length.
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Lucy of Bolingbroke
Lucy of Bolingbroke (died circa 1138) was an Anglo-Norman heiress in central England and, later in life, countess of Chester. Probably related to the old English earls of Mercia, she came to possess extensive lands in Lincolnshire which she passed on to her husbands and sons. She was a notable religious patron, founding or co-founding two small religious houses and endowing several with lands and churches.
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Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery
Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery a local authority-run museum located in Maidstone, Kent, England, featuring internationally important collections including fine art, natural history, and human history.
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Marina Warner
Dame Marina Sarah Warner, (born 1946) is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer.
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Mark (currency)
The mark was a currency or unit of account in many nations.
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Marshall Claxton
Marshall Claxton (12 May 1811 – 28 July 1881) was an English subject, genre, landscape and portrait painter.
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Matthew Paris
Matthew Paris, known as Matthew of Paris (Latin: Matthæus Parisiensis, "Matthew the Parisian"; c. 1200 – 1259), was a Benedictine monk, English chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts and cartographer, based at St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire.
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May Queen
The May Queen or Queen of May is a personification of the May Day holiday, and of springtime and also summer.
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Mercia
Mercia (Miercna rīce) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.
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Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead
The Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead was a Metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1900 to 1965, when it was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras and the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn to form the London Borough of Camden.
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Minster (church)
Minster is an honorific title given to particular churches in England, most famously York Minster in York, Westminster in London and Southwell Minster in Southwell.
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Much Wenlock
Much Wenlock is a small town and parish in Shropshire, England, situated on the A458 road between Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth.
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Norman conquest of England
The Norman conquest of England (in Britain, often called the Norman Conquest or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, Flemish and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.
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Normandy
Normandy (Normandie,, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.
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Old English
Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
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Old St Paul's Cathedral
Old St Paul's Cathedral was the medieval cathedral of the City of London that, until 1666, stood on the site of the present St Paul's Cathedral.
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Order of Saint Benedict
The Order of Saint Benedict (OSB; Latin: Ordo Sancti Benedicti), also known as the Black Monksin reference to the colour of its members' habitsis a Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of Saint Benedict.
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Pardon
A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be absolved of guilt for an alleged crime or other legal offense, as if the act never occurred.
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Paul de Rapin
Paul de Rapin (25 March 1661 – 25 April 1725), sieur of Thoyras (and therefore styled Thoyras de Rapin), was a French historian writing under English patronage.
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Percy Folio
The Percy Folio is a folio book of English ballads used by Thomas Percy to compile his Reliques of Ancient Poetry.
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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.
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Richard Grafton
Richard Grafton (c. 1506/7 or 1511 – 1573) was King's Printer under Henry VIII and Edward VI.
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Richard II of England
Richard II (6 January 1367 – c. 14 February 1400), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399.
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Roger of Wendover
Roger of Wendover (died 6 May 1236), probably a native of Wendover in Buckinghamshire, was an English chronicler of the 13th century.
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Rood
A rood or rood cross, sometimes known as a triumphal cross, is a cross or crucifix, especially the large Crucifixion set above the entrance to the chancel of a medieval church.
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Salic law
The Salic law (or; Lex salica), or the was the ancient Salian Frankish civil law code compiled around AD 500 by the first Frankish King, Clovis.
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Shel Silverstein
Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American writer known for his cartoons, songs, and children's books.
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Slip (clothing)
A slip is a woman's undergarment worn beneath a dress or skirt.
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Spalding Priory
Spalding Priory was a small Benedictine house in the town of Spalding, Lincolnshire, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and St Nicholas.
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Stained glass
The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works created from it.
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Stow Minster
The Minster Church of St Mary, Stow in Lindsey, is a major Anglo-Saxon church in Lincolnshire.
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Tax
A tax (from the Latin taxo) is a mandatory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed upon a taxpayer (an individual or other legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund various public expenditures.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.
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The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in 1964 in New York City by singer/guitarist Lou Reed, multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise (replaced by Moe Tucker in 1965).
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Thomas Hancock Nunn
Thomas Hancock Nunn (1859-1937) was an English social reformer.
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Thomas Pennant
Thomas Pennant (14 June OS 1726 – 16 December 1798) was a Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian.
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Upper class
The upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, and usuall are also the wealthiest members of society, and also wield the greatest political power.
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Veto (album)
Veto is the seventh studio album by German extreme metal band Heaven Shall Burn, released on 19 April 2013 through Century Media Records.
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Voyeurism
Voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions usually considered to be of a private nature.
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White Light/White Heat
White Light/White Heat is the second studio album by American rock band the Velvet Underground, released in 1968 by record label Verve.
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William Dugdale
Sir William Dugdale (12 September 1605 – 10 February 1686) was an English antiquary and herald.
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Woolhope
Woolhope is a village and civil parish in the English county of Herefordshire.
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Worcester
Worcester is a city in Worcestershire, England, southwest of Birmingham, west-northwest of London, north of Gloucester and northeast of Hereford.
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Wulviva
Wulviva (or Wulfgifu) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Godiva
