Word: viii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry VIII breaks with Pope, leading to adoption of Anglican faith as state religion...
...argument that has rattled on in Britain since Henry VIII is that Britain should not associate with predominantly Roman Catholic Western Europe; the Free Church of Scotland has specifically warned members against the sinister "web of Rome." Another criticism of British membership is that under Common Market guarantees of free movement, the Anglo-Saxon shores will be invaded by hordes of immigrants from the Continent, competing for jobs and living space...
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, the Most Reverend Father in God, Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor of England, was, next to King Henry VIII, the most powerful man in the realm. But he was also still the poor boy from Ipswich who had constantly to prove himself. It was only natural, therefore, that when he decided to establish a private residence just outside London, it should be the most sumptuous one in the land. In 1514, he picked a site a few miles down the Thames from London. There stood a small manor belonging to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John...
...Mary. But Wolsey's apartments are still there, and it is said that sometimes at night His Eminence can be heard opening and shutting doors. This summer the thousands of tourists who descend upon Hampton Court can get something of the flavor of Wolsey's and Henry VIII's day, as the result of an elaborate restoration job performed by the Ministry of Works. But the restoration has also given the art world an extra dividend: in restoring the 16th century paintings, the ministry uncovered some rare and priceless specimens from the 15th. One official has called...
...public-spirited Lady named Godiva and her husband, Earl Leofric, built Coventry's first great church in 1043; it stood until Henry VIII had it pulled down around 1540. A second-the magnificent Gothic St. Michael's Cathedral-was completed in 1433, and lasted until the night of Nov. 14, 1940, when 500 German planes bombed it in a raid that forever linked the city's name to the destructiveness of modern war. Only the outer walls, tower and spire of St. Michael's were left standing...