Quote by Marc Morris

“Æthelred made an invaluable contribution to the war effort by dropping dead, clearing the way for Edmund to succeed him.”

— Marc Morris

“The practice of buying off the Vikings will always be associated with Æthelred in particular… [but] it was not something which proceeded from Æthelred…

— Simon Keynes

“The demands for vengeance, short of death, however, were so insistent that the wise counsels of Edward, the giver of victory, were swept aside.…

— Thomas B. Costain

“Thomas Cromwell is now about fifty years old. He has a labourer's body, stocky, useful, running to fat. He has black hair, greying now,…

— Hilary Mantel

“That to the adolescent is the authentic poetic note and whoever is the first in his life to strike it, whether Tennyson, Keats, Swinburne,…

— W.H. Auden

“...[T]he Normans, with the usual policy of conquerors, were jealous of permitting to the vanquished Saxons the possession or the use of swords and…

— Walter Scott

“Richard III was the last English monarch to die in battle. Shakespeare gave him the words that made him immortal: “My kingdom for a…

— Eduardo Galeano

“ "Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.”

— Beryl Markham

“If my brother, Dægan, was still alive to herald this moment, I know he would have something poetically moving to say. But where I…

— Renee Vincent

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties,…

— Norman Mailer

Our king went forth to Normandy, With grace and might of chivalry, The God for him wrought marvellously, Wherefore England may call and cry

— Deo Gratias Anglia Redde Pro Victoria

“Warwick breathed out slowly. He could her the noise of the descending duke and he turned back to the Plantagenet armies of York -…

— Conn Iggulden