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Welcome to EnglandHi which is a web system set up to discuss, from a historical point of view, the legends of King Arthur and Camelot and related cultural matters.

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For a tour of my sites to browse offline click above here. See my booklets and slides below.

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Many years of thinking about the Arthurian legends and related matters gave me a special understanding of how culture has been dealt with over the centuries and it becomes clearer with some consideration that at the heart of these matters is the question of the character and honour of nations. If this sounds interesting to you please read the text of my first 3 booklets which are here for you in full and if you find you would like to read more a paperback book is available with much more information.

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Please email me with your views: andrew_burbidge@hotmail.com

Also I will include extracts from the longer work occasionally.

Extracts1 Extracts2 Extracts from my book, In The Name Offa-Arthur

The booklets take 15-20 seconds each to download at 28.8k

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The 24 chapter titles of the 3 booklets are:

1 Arthur & Guinevere, Camelot, Merlin and the Sword in the Stone, The Lady of the Lake, Weland and the Cradle of English Civilisation, The Mother of Parliaments and the Round Table, Love Most High, Legacy.

2 In the Name Offa-Arthur, Religion, Cultural Treasures, Angles & Angels, The First English Peoples, Art & Science, The At-land, Kings & Queens.

3 Arthurian Legends in Literature, Beowulf and the Holy Grail, Lords of the Ring, The Men of Iron, Cultural Management, Names, Colours, In the Name of the King.

These booklets explain in some detail how the Legends of King Arthur must derive from the life of King Offa of Mercia and his queen who were the greatest of the early English kings and queens. They include some of the main points from the longer work, "In The Name Offa Arthur - The Management of Culture" which I have been writing since 1991. It is an in depth discussion of how cultural matters including the legends of King Arthur and Camelot have been dealt with over the centuries. It developed into a discussion of how cultural management seems sometimes to be at the heart of government.

The first ever writer to mention someone called Arthur was Nennius and these next links are to pages intended to give an insight into his motives. Nennius was writing in Latin and he actually used a Latin form of the name. Although early Welsh writers eventually translated Latin forms back into known Welsh ones they never translated Nennius's Latin version as "Arthur" which suggests that no such person was known to them.

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People might like to read work by Tom Green of Exeter College, Oxford on the Historicity and Historicisation of Arthur. He points out that Celtic myths concerning an early Arthur seem to have begun with a character who was not entirely human. I believe it is fair to say that without Offa and Cynethryth we would not have the legends we know today where the great king and queen are often portrayed as very English in character. I am convinced that Tom Green's work and mine taken together account for the origins of the Arthurian legends better than it has ever been done before. Tom Green has a very thorough bibliography and here is a link to mine: Bibliography

This next link is to a language study with very short .wav files which demonstrate the similarities between the spoken forms of the names Offa and Arthur and between Cynethryth and Guinevere, if small modifications are made.

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In my book I also mention some of my scientific ideas, which include segmented mirror telescopes and laser-powered fusion and people who work in those and related fields may be interested to read a little about the origins of those branches of science. Because my initials are F.A. some people will have heard of me as F.A.Burbidge. The book has an ISBN number: 0 9536579 06.

I adapted an animation from CorelMove to advertise the book but haven't found a server which accepts the format yet so here is a captured frame with the movement on it. Bookad

Send a cheque for $US 10.00 or 6 UK pounds (or equivalent in other major currencies) for the the paperback book to me: Andrew Burbidge, 26 Patrick Street, Market Harborough, Leics, LE16 9HP, England. The price includes postage and packaging.

For your comments email me: andrew_burbidge@hotmail.com I would like to include some opinion from people on this site so please email me with any historical or other contribution you feel is relevant to this discussion. Why not get two or three people to share the cost of the book with you? And could anyone do me a favour and post a reference to this site on a notice-board? Thank You. Andrew.

Now please have a look at these slides, which help to show how the Mercian kingdom of King Offa seems to have a special place at the origin of the English peoples' culture:

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The 9 slides are linked to produce an animated slide show which runs continually till ESC is pressed and is about 1Mb.

Here is a very interesting animation of Microsoft's. It should take about 3 minutes to download at 28.8kbps. To me it symbolises the clearing up of the problems associated with the Arthurian legends. Clearup

Anyone very interested in discussions regarding the origins of the legends might be interested in the Arthurnet. Some postings of mine introducing ideas from my booklets and my longer work can be found in their archives. If you put 'Andrew Burbidge' into their search window it should give a list of my contributions and where I'm quoted. Arthurnet

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List of my sites:

http://www.geocities.com/andrewburbidge Offa & Arthur

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http://www.angelfire.com/nb/offarex Science & Pictures

http://www.stormpages.com/offarex Pictures

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http://members.lycos.co.uk/monkeygame/ Funny Game

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