England and the Netherlands, meanwhile, were to retain their commercial rights in Spain.

With his primary heir dead, Henry rearranged the plans for the succession: Richard was to be made King of England, albeit without any actual power until the death of his father ; Geoffrey would retain Brittany ; and John would now become the Duke of Aquitaine in place of Richard.

England would be the first team to retain the Ashes when Australia visited them in 1884.

England and the United Provinces, meanwhile, were to retain their commercial rights in Spain.

Tracking east from here and past the two Church of England parish churches, both called Saint Mary's ( Stoke Newington strangely decided to retain the old one, unusual in a London parish ), leads to Abney Park Cemetery, one of the most splendid and enlightened of Victorian London cemeteries.

He was unable to retain the territorial gains of his predecessor, Cædwalla, who had brought much of southern England under his control and expanded West Saxon territory substantially.

Some parts of England retain forms of the Tripartite System, and a few grammar schools survive in otherwise comprehensive areas.

In 1288, King Edward I of England mediated to make peace, and Charles was liberated on the condition that he was to retain Naples alone.

* Thanks mainly to the bowling of Bobby Peel, England defeats Australia 2 – 1 to retain The Ashes.

Dr Sue Millar from England said: “ Thus there is the chance to save time and massive expenditure on conservation, to retain the exceptional scope and variety of the 19th and 20th century British manufacturing and engineering machinery …”

But Lillee's absence for the forthcoming tour of England would hamper Chappell's campaign to retain the Ashes.

Trueman had done enough to retain his place for the Third Test at Headingley where England won by an innings and 42 runs.

After the Norman conquest of England, Wulfstan was the only English-born bishop to retain his diocese for any significant time after the Conquest ( all others had been replaced or succeeded by Normans by 1075 ).

Although King Henry III of England had accepted Dafydd's claim to rule Gwynedd, he was not disposed to allow him to retain his father's conquests outside Gwynedd.

As a result of this performance, he was one of only three players to retain their places for the next Test against England at Perth in November 1979 after the WSC players returned.

* Fox declares that England can retain Canada " through the good will of the Canadians, alone.

The monarch would retain a purely ceremonial role and no longer be head of the Church of England.

In the Church of England these Sundays retain their original designations where the Prayer Book Calendar is followed, but in the Common Worship Calendar they have been subsumed into a pre-Lent season of variable length, with anything from zero to five " Sundays before Lent " depending on the date of Easter.

Wisden believed Hutton's tactics were instrumental in giving his team the upper hand, and in the final innings, England needed 94 to win and retain the Ashes.

It was here in 654 AD that St Cedd founded the church of St Peter-on-the-Wall, the oldest church in England to retain much of its original fabric.

The district was abolished as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England although Durham will retain its city charter through the appointment of charter trustees.

Many of the towns of England still retain forms of the word castra in their names, usually as the suffixes "- caster " or "- chester " -- Lancaster, Tadcaster, Chester, Manchester and Ribchester, for example.

" So long as the islands retain their own independent government there remains the possibility that England or the Canadian Dominion might secure one of the Hawaiian harbors for a coaling station.

At that time, much excitement prevailed among the latter, owing to the attempts of the Jacobite office-holders to retain power in spite of the revolution in England and the accession of William and Mary to the throne.

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia since 1882.

England is the current holder after winning the Ashes in 2009 and again in the 2010 / 11 series in Australia.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

As it took many years for the name " The Ashes " to be given to the ongoing series between England and Australia, there was no concept of there being a representation of the ashes being presented to the winners.

At the end of the Third Test, England were generally considered to have " won back the Ashes " 2 – 1.

England lost only four Ashes Tests in the 1880s out of 23 played, and they won all the seven series contested.

In 1896 England under the captaincy of W G Grace won the series 2 – 1, and this marked the end of England's longest period of Ashes dominance.

England won it against the odds, and Plum Warner, the England captain, wrote up his version of the tour in his book How We Recovered The Ashes.

The title of this book revived the Ashes legend and it was after this that England v Australia series were customarily referred to as " The Ashes ".

England retained the Ashes when they won the 1912 Triangular Tournament, which also featured South Africa.

Although England decisively won the Ashes 4 – 1, Bodyline caused such a furore in Australia that diplomats had to intervene to prevent serious harm to Anglo-Australian relations, and the MCC eventually changed the Laws of cricket to curtail the number of leg side fielders.

The Ashes resumed after the war when England toured in 1946 – 47, and as in 1920 – 21, found that Australia had made the best post-war recovery.

The 1972 series finished 2 – 2, with England under Illingworth retaining the Ashes.

Despite suffering heavy defeats against the West Indies during the 1980s, England continued to do well in the Ashes.

Only a single England victory had come in a match in which the Ashes were still at stake, namely the First Test of the 1997 series.

The First Test at Lord's was convincingly won by Australia, but in the remaining four matches the teams were evenly matched and England fought back to win the Second Test by 2 runs, the smallest victory by a runs margin in Ashes history, and the second-closest such victory in all Tests.

A draw in the final Test gave England victory in an Ashes series for the first time in 18 years and their first Ashes victory at home since 1985.

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

England then achieved their first Ashes win at Lord's since 1934 to go 1 – 0 up.

Finally, England won the Fifth Test at The Oval by a margin of 197 runs to regain the Ashes.

This allowed England to take an unbeatable 2 – 1 lead in the series and so they retained The Ashes.