Ambleside Online
An Island Story/Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall

Scroll down for dates associated with each chapter and websites for further study.

I am glad to announce that the illustrations For Our Island Story are now available here.

You can use the Customize Your Display Preferences button to get rid of the extraneous stuff at the top and left of the screen so you can print them. Or, you can right click on the images and copy them into your Word document or whatever. Note that the images that are displayed by default are in .gif format. If you would like them in JPEG format, you can change that also in the Customize Your Display preferences.

I know that the Customize Your Display Preferences page does not work properly right now for Netscape users. I will try to fix that this weekend. If it is not working correctly for users of any other browsers, please let me know by sending me mail at Lisa@MainLesson.com so I can get it to work for you too.

In the meantime, you can use this link to bring up the illustrations, then hit refresh to bring them up without the extraneous stuff.

You can see the text that accompanies the pictures in one big chunk here or as separate chapters here.

I have proofread the entire text carefully against my copy of Our Island Story. Be forewarned though, that since the last chapter in my book is Chapter CX. Victoria-Boer and Briton, the four chapters on World War I and the League of Nations are not included.

Enjoy! Lisa Ripperton
Baldwin Project

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Dates and Websites for Further Information for each chapter

An Island Story and Our Island Story are the same book. One was published in England, one in America. There are a couple minor differences, but not many, and we use the titles interchangably. The online version is mostly based on An Island Story, but it doesn't matter which verson members use.

The dates for the chapters:

The first chapter has no date. It's as much myth as fact, maybe more myth. It has literary and cultural value, but it's not strictly history.

Chapters 2 and 3 occurred in the reign of Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.)

Chapter IV - Caligula, Roman emperor from 37 to 41 And Caractucus, from about A.D. 43 to A.D. 51 (the date of his surrender to the Roman emperor)

Chapter V - Boadicea, somewhere between A.D. 60 and 66

Chapter VI - Julius Agricola, centurion and governor:78 to around 85 A.D. when he was recalled by the Roman Emperor Domitian; and Hadrian, who came in 122 A.D.

Chapter VI also gives a date for the time the Romans stopped coming - around 410 A.D.

Here's a timeline of use in figuring out the timeline and details of the first six chapters.

Chapter VII - St. Alban- martyered in 304 A.D. http://www.britannia.com/bios/saints/amphibalus.html

Chapter VIII - Vortigern and King Constans:420 or 440 A.D.- unclear http://www.britannia.com/history/biographies/vortig.html

Chapter IX and X - Hengist and Horsa, probably 449a.D. http://www.bartleby.com/65/he/HengistN.html

Interesting poem here.

Chapter XI - Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther Pendragon - Probably late 450's http://www.britannia.com/history/biographies/ambros.html

Chapter XII - XIII - Arthur - see links below.

Chapter XIV - Pope Gregory - he died in A.D. 604

Here is a website with a table of Saxon kings and a map, very interesting:http://www.angelcynn.org.uk/

Chapter XV - XVII King Alfred - probably 870 or thereabouts to 899 A.D.

Chapter XVIII - Ethelred the Unread- 901 A.D. is the beginnning of his reign

XIX - Edmund Ironside - was made king in May of 1016 and died in November 1016 A.D.

XX - Canute - Succeeded Edmund, ruled until 1035 A.D. Timeline:

Remaining chapters - there is a timeline of sorts in the back of the book, or at the end of the e-text, that gives the dates of kings from Edward the Confessor (chapter XXI) on.

Of further interest: Geoffrey of Monmouth's chronicles of the kings of Britain, particularly the Arthurian stuff

More biographies and literature

A website of links to ancient chronicles of England, including the delightful Malmesbury- a real treasure trove of links: http://camelot.celtic-twilight.com/oas.htm

And really anything at http://www.britannia.com/

Hope this is useful,
Wendi