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England: Histories
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England has many areas of historical interest. The Queen and the Royal Family are a well known international symbol of England. The Buckingham Palace and the changing of the guards are two popular tourist attractions.
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England can be divided most generally into three sections, with deep historical and linguistic roots for each of them. These can be further divided into regions, which in turn consist of counties (most of which ... have long histories, but have been revised in many cases for administrative reasons).
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Egbert of Wessex (d.839) is often regarded as the first king of all England, though his true title was Bretwalda (High King). School histories of England tend to begin with the accession of William the Conqueror in 1066.
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This map shows the current but often changing Goverment Administrative counties of England. These are the counties you will find on most maps and road atlases and that are sadly more widely used today than the historic traditional counties of England. See key below for each counties full name. See links on right for more information, pictures and attractions of each county.
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The Library and Archives' collections of family papers and account books provide significant information about New England's social, cultural, economic, agricultural, and literary history. For example, the Codman Family Papers include correspondence from Edith Wharton to Ogden Codman, Jr.; important documents related to the completion of the Washington Monument and the construction of the State, War, and Navy Building and the Library of Congress are part of the Casey Family Papers; the business papers of Harrison Gray Otis (member of Congress 1791-1801 and mayor of Boston 1829-1831) are an important source of information about the development of Boston's Beacon Hill; and the Jewett Family Papers contain correspondence between the noted New England author Sarah Orne Jewett and members of her family.
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Some school histories of England begin with the Norman conquest in 1066, and the numbering system used for English monarchs treats that event as a blank slate from which to count. (For example, the Edward I who reigned in the 13th century was not the first king of England of that name, only the first since the conquest.) But although he unquestionably engineered a pivotal moment in the country's history, William the Conqueror did not "found" or "unify" the country; he took over a pre-existing England and gave it an Anglo-Norman administration and nobility who gradually adopted the language and customs of the English over the succeeding centuries.
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