"In 1985 he led the first official delegation of British archivists to China, and he often represented the PRO overseas. He also ensured that the 900th anniversary of Domesday Book in 1986 was celebrated with a major public exhibition, held at Chancery Lane in the former Rolls Chapel. It was a great success, linking sound scholarship with the use of the then new technology of ‘talking heads’. He remains the only career academic who has ever had charge of the national archives, and later felt obliged to criticise the appointment of another head of the archives who he considered to"
"The Exeter Book is the largest known collection of Old English literature still in existence. In 2016, UNESCO recognized the book as one of the ""world's principal cultural artefacts"". The Exeter Book is generally acknowledged to be one of the great works of the English Benedictine revival of the tenth century; the precise dates that it was written and compiled are unknown, although proposed dates range from 960 to 990. This period saw a rise in monastic activity and productivity under the renewed influence of Benedictine principles and standards. At the opening of the period, Dunstan's importance to the Church"
"prestigious literary prizes in the English-speaking world. It ranks 146th in a composite list, compiled by Brian Kunde of Stanford University, of the best twentieth-century English-language fiction. In 2006, ""The Observer"" asked 150 literary writers and critics to vote for the best British, Irish or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005; ""The Remains of the Day"" placed joint-eighth. In 2007, ""The Remains of the Day"" was included in a ""Guardian"" list of ""Books you can't live without"" and also in a 2009 ""1000 novels everyone must read"" list. ""The Economist"" has described the novel as Ishiguro's ""most famous book"". <br>"
"of the early scholarly book ""Crusade Against the Grail"" by the young German Otto Rahn in the 1930s rekindled interest in the connection between the Cathars and the Holy Grail, especially in Germany. Rahn was convinced that the 13th-century work ""Parzival"" by Wolfram von Eschenbach was a veiled account of the Cathars. The philosopher and Nazi government official Alfred Rosenberg speaks favourably of the Cathars in ""The Myth of the Twentieth Century"". Academic books in English first appeared at the beginning of the millennium: for example, Malcolm Lambert's ""The Cathars"" and Malcolm Barber's ""The Cathars"". Starting in the 1990s and"
"800-1200"". Yale: Yale University Press, 1993. . Webster, Leslie, Janet Backhouse, and Marion Archibald. ""The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture, AD 600-900"". Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. Wilson, David M. ""Anglo-Saxon Art"". Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1984. . Book of Cerne The Book of Cerne (Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 1. 10) is an early ninth-century Insular or Anglo-Saxon Latin personal prayer book with Old English components. It belongs to a group of four such early prayer books, the others being the Royal Prayerbook, the Harleian prayerbook, and the Book of Nunnaminster. It is now"
"1969, the Space Shuttle ""Challenger"" disaster in 1986, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. This 'movable feast' aspect appears to be characteristic of the genre. Possibly the first of these books to become popular in English was Henry C. Roberts' ""The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus"" of 1947, reprinted at least seven times during the next forty years, which contained both transcriptions and translations, with brief commentaries. This was followed in 1961 (reprinted in 1982) by Edgar Leoni's ""Nostradamus and His Prophecies"". After that came Erika"
"use in Britain in the 1890s, becoming most popular in the 1920s. Then it was the greatest possible compliment to be called a ""second Enid"", since the original was a legendary romantic figure of spotless perfection and courage in life. Enid was the quiet brave steadfast character of Tennyson's poem, loved deeply by many, yet her love or loyalty to her husband was unwavering, even at his worst. Today Enid is a quiet quirky bookish type due to the link with Enid Blyton, the world famous children's adventure and mystery author. Blyton's books remain enormously popular, even after nearly 100"
"celebrated book in the English-speaking world"". David Crystal has estimated that it is responsible for 257 idioms in English, examples include feet of clay and reap the whirlwind. Furthermore, prominent atheist figures such as the late Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins have praised the King James Version as being ""a giant step in the maturing of English literature"" and ""a great work of literature"", respectively, with Dawkins then adding, ""A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian"". Although the Authorized Version's former monopoly in the English-speaking world"
"on 12 January 1946. In 2003 the BBC carried out a UK survey entitled ""The Big Read"" in order to find the ""nation's best-loved novel"" of all time, with works by English novelists J. R. R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, Philip Pullman, Douglas Adams and J. K. Rowling making up the top five on the list. England has a long and rich musical history. The United Kingdom has, like most European countries, undergone a roots revival in the last half of the 20th century. English music has been an instrumental and leading part of this phenomenon, which peaked at the end"
"religious significance. The Authorized Version has been called ""the most influential version of the most influential book in the world, in what is now its most influential language"", ""the most important book in English religion and culture"", and ""the most celebrated book in the English-speaking world"". David Crystal has estimated that it is responsible for 257 idioms in English, examples include feet of clay and reap the whirlwind. Furthermore, prominent atheist figures such as the late Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins have praised the King James Version as being ""a giant step in the maturing of English literature"" and ""a"
"The ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" is a collection of annals in Old English, from the 9th century, that chronicle is the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The poem ""Battle of Maldon"" also deals with history. This is a work of uncertain date, celebrating the Battle of Maldon of 991, at which the Anglo-Saxons failed to prevent a Viking invasion. Oral tradition was very strong in early English culture and most literary works were written to be performed. Epic poems were very popular, and some, including ""Beowulf"", have survived to the present day. ""Beowulf"" is the most famous work in Old English, and has"
"bodily emissions, and sexual morality. Daniel's solution? Pretend to be ill. Book of the Civilized Man Book of the Civilized Man by Daniel of Beccles (, also known as Liber Urbani, Urbanus Magnus, or Civilized Man) is believed to be the first English courtesy book (or book of manners), dating probably from the beginning of the 13th century. The book is significant because in the later Middle Ages dozens of such courtesy books were produced. Because this appears to be the first in English history, it represented a new awakening to etiquette and decorum in English court society, which occurred"
"Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962) 82. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962) 83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964) 84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966) 85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966) 86. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969) 87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971) 88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike (1971) 89. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977) 90. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul (1979) 91. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) 92. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981) 93. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin"
"Holy Communion and other sacraments, and the various feasts. Furthermore, the ""Hymns Ancient and Modern"" was the first influential book to attach ""Amen"" to every hymn. The ""Hymns Ancient and Modern"" experienced immediate and overwhelming success, becoming possibly the most popular English hymnal ever published. The music, expressive and tuneful, greatly assisted to its popularity. Total sales in 150 years were over 170 million copies. As such, it set the standard for many later hymnals like the ""English Hymnal"" which first appeared in 1906. As such, the English Hymnal is succeeded by the New English Hymnal in 1986. The first"
"in the field or the library, that in order to obtain some real comprehension of the issue involved in the controversy now going on they should read at least one book on each side. The first I would recommend is a volume by Mr. R. H. Lock on “Variation, Heredity and Evolution” (1906) as the only recent book giving an account of the whole subject from the point of view of the Mendelians and Mutationists. Robert Heath Lock Robert Heath Lock (January 19, 1879 – June 26, 1915) was an English botanist and geneticist who wrote the first English textbook"
"including: ' (Following Arthur) (1938), ' (Wednesday essays) (1945), ' (Masters of the centuries) (1973), ' (Masters and their craft) (1981) and ' (Go to it, young men) (1986). In March 1983, at the age of 89, Saunders Lewis was made an honorary Doctor of Letters of the University of Wales at a ceremony specially conducted at his home in Penarth. The Catholic Herald, reporting the honour, noted that in the previous year Lewis had made a plea for Mass to be said in Latin in Wales rather than in the ""foreign language of English"", which he pointed out was"
"reader surveys. In the 2003 ""Big Read"" survey conducted in Britain by the BBC, ""The Lord of the Rings"" was found to be the ""Nation's best-loved book"". In similar 2004 polls both Germany and Australia also found ""The Lord of the Rings"" to be their favourite book. In a 1999 poll of Amazon.com customers, ""The Lord of the Rings"" was judged to be their favourite ""book of the millennium"". ""The Lord of the Rings"" was awarded the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 2009. Although ""The Lord of the Rings"" was published in the 1950s, Tolkien insisted that the One"
"It sets out the way of life for member of the English governing class. Between 1531 and 1580, the book went through seven different editions. According to Biblio.com, the Book of the Governor ""went through edition after edition all through the sixteenth century. It achieved this fame for many reasons. It is the first work in recognizably modern English prose, to which Elyot added many new words. It provided influential advocacy for the study of the classics, from which he quotes extensively. the principal cause of its popularity was the current vogue for its subject – it is a treatise"
"and ""The Bloomsday Book"". ""The Bloomsday Book"" is a guide to James Joyce's ""Ulysses"". It was first published in 1966 and revised in 1988 and 1996 (""The New Bloomsday Book""); it continues to help readers of Joyce's best-known work to this day. ""The Christian Mind"" has been used as a textbook at hundreds of bible colleges and seminaries around the world. Blamires was also the author of ""A Short History of English Literature"" (1974; 2nd edition, 1984), ""A History of Literary Criticism"" (1991) and four books on the use of English including ""The Penguin Guide To Plain English"" (2000). He"
"Joan Didion (1988), Raymond Carver (1989), Gore Vidal (1989), John Cheever (1992), John Updike (1997), Don Delillo (1998), Philip Roth (1999), and Annie Proulx (2000). 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Ambassador Book Award The Ambassador Book Award (1986-2011) was presented annually by the English-Speaking Union. It recognized important literary and non-fiction works that contributed to the understanding and interpretation of American life and culture. Winners of the award were considered literary ambassadors who provide, in the best contemporary English,"
"of 1987 is key in an important scene near the end of ""Possession: A Romance"", the bestselling and Man Booker Prize-winning novel by A. S. Byatt. The Great Storm of 1987 occurred on the night of October 15–16, 1987, when an unusually strong weather system caused winds to hit much of southern England and northern France. It was the worst storm to hit England since the Great Storm of 1703 (284 years earlier) and was responsible for the deaths of at least 22 people in England and France combined (18 in England, at least four in France). Hurricane Katrina (2005)"
"Book of the Civilized Man Book of the Civilized Man by Daniel of Beccles (, also known as Liber Urbani, Urbanus Magnus, or Civilized Man) is believed to be the first English courtesy book (or book of manners), dating probably from the beginning of the 13th century. The book is significant because in the later Middle Ages dozens of such courtesy books were produced. Because this appears to be the first in English history, it represented a new awakening to etiquette and decorum in English court society, which occurred in the 13th century. As a general rule, a book of"
"libraries worldwide] 1981: More personal opinions 1981: The David Marshall trials [12 editions published between 1981 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 34 libraries worldwide] 1981: The tenth man : gold bar murders [3 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 27 libraries worldwide] 1982: David Marshalls Political Interlude [1 edition published in 1982 in English and held by 31 libraries worldwide] 2009: Bloodlust (reprint of The tenth man-gold bar murders first published in 1973; The murder of a beauty queen first published in 1984) 2009: Cold-blooded murders (reprint of The trial of Sunny Ang,"
"England"". This edition started a run of reprints which produced one or more almost every year for 60 years. ""Lavengro"" was included in the Oxford University Press World's Classics series in 1904, and in Everyman's Library in 1906. Full-text online editions Criticism Lavengro Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest (1851) is a work by George Borrow, falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, which has long been considered a classic of 19th-century English literature. According to the author ""lav-engro"" is a Romany word meaning ""word master"". The historian G. M. Trevelyan called it ""a book that breathes"
"respectively. The winner, as chosen by a public vote, was Salman Rushdie's ""Midnight's Children"", and was announced on July 10 at the London Literature Festival. ""Midnight's Children"" not only won the 1981 Booker, but also the special 1993 Booker of Bookers prize, which commemorated the award's 25th anniversary. The shortlisted titles were: The Best of the Booker The Best of the Booker is a special prize awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary. Eligible books included the 41 winners of the Booker Prize since its inception in 1969. The six shortlisted titles were announced on 12 May 2008"
"Lamb Building. It had been named after Lamb who retired from the university in 1978. In 1988, as part of the University's 25th anniversary celebrations, Prince Charles visited the CRU building. In 1989 the British Centre for Literary Translation was founded by WG Sebald, and The Arthur Miller Centre for American Studies was set up to encourage and facilitiate the study of the United States. Arthur Miller later in 2000 went on to spend his 85th birthday at UEA when he was made an honorary graduate. In the same year Kazuo Ishiguro won the Man Booker Prize and became one"
"was found to be the UK's ""Best-loved Novel"". Australians voted ""The Lord of the Rings"" ""My Favourite Book"" in a 2004 survey conducted by the Australian ABC. In a 1999 poll of Amazon.com customers, ""The Lord of the Rings"" was judged to be their favourite ""book of the millennium"". In 2002 Tolkien was voted the 92nd ""greatest Briton"" in a poll conducted by the BBC, and in 2004 he was voted 35th in the SABC3's Great South Africans, the only person to appear in both lists. His popularity is not limited to the English-speaking world: in a 2004 poll inspired"
"Leigh"" (1857) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ""Lucile"" (1860) by 'Owen Meredith' (Robert Bulwer-Lytton), and ""The Ring and the Book"" (1868-9) by Robert Browning. The form appears to have declined with Modernism, but has since the 1960s-70s undergone a remarkable revival. Vladimir Nabokov's ""Pale Fire"" (1962) takes the form of a 999-line poem four cantos, though the plot of the novel unfolds in the commentary. Of particular note, Vikram Seth's ""The Golden Gate"" (1986) was a surprise bestseller, and Derek Walcott's ""Omeros"" (1990) a more predictable success. The form has been particularly popular in the Caribbean, with work since 1980 by"
"Waltz in Vienna"" <br> 1983 A. N. Wilson, ""Wise Virgin"" <br> 1984 Philip Larkin, ""Required Writing"" <br> 1985 David Hughes, ""The Pork Butcher"" <br> 1986 Doris Lessing, ""The Good Terrorist"" <br> 1987 Elizabeth Jennings, ""Collected Poems 1953–1985"" <br> 1988 Robert Hughes, ""The Fatal Shore"" <br> 1989 Christopher Hill, """" <br> 1990 V. S. Pritchett, ""A Careless Widow and Other Stories"" <br> 1991 Derek Walcott, ""Omeros"" <br> 1992 Thomas Pakenham, ""The Scramble for Africa ""<br> 1993 Michèle Roberts, ""Daughters of the House"" <br> 1994 Vikram Seth, ""A Suitable Boy"" <br> 1995 Alice Munro, ""Open Secrets""<br> 1996 Simon Schama, ""Landscape and Memory"""
"J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works ""The Hobbit"", ""The Lord of the Rings"", and ""The Silmarillion"". He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1945 to 1959. He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both"
"as the old and bearded figure imagined by 17th century writers. In his poem ""Marmion"" of 1808 Walter Scott wrote Scott's phrase Merry England has been adopted by historians to describe the romantic notion that there was a golden age of the English past, allegedly since lost, that was characterised by universal hospitality and charity. The notion had a profound influence on the way that popular customs were seen, and most of the 19th century writers who bemoaned the state of contemporary Christmases were, at least to some extent, yearning for the mythical Merry England version. Thomas Hervey’s ""The Book"
"edition was that of Charles Plummer, whose 1896 ""Venerabilis Bedae Opera Historica"", with a full commentary, has been a foundation-stone for all subsequent scholarship. Ecclesiastical History of the English People The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (), written by the Venerable Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between the pre-Schism Roman Rite and Celtic Christianity. It was originally composed in Latin, and is considered one of the most important original references on Anglo-Saxon history and has played a key role"
"years was the standard and much-loved book by which children learned the history of England. However a lot of this book is historically inaccurate and much of it uses Shakespeare's plays for historical sources; for example, the section of Richard III is really a summary of the play. The book went out of print in the 1960s, but in 2005, an alliance of the Civitas think-tank and various national newspapers reprinted it, with the aim of sending a free copy to each of the UK's primary schools. Readers of ""The Daily Telegraph"" contributed £25,000 to the cost of the reprint."