In archaeology, for example, the contributions of Frederick Haverfield and Reginald Smith to the various volumes of the Victoria County Histories raised the discipline from the status of an antiquarian pastime to that of the most valuable single tool of the early English historian.

* 1726 – Charles Burney, English historian ( d. 1814 )

* 1820 – George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )

* 1882 – Gisela Richter, English archaeologist and historian ( d. 1972 )

* 1597 – Roger Twysden, English historian and politician ( d. 1672 )

* 1852 – Arnold Toynbee, English economist and historian ( d. 1883 )

* 1889 – Arnold Joseph Toynbee, English historian ( d. 1975 )

* 1911 – A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian ( d. 1993 )

The 20th-century historian Frank Stenton said of the Anglo-Saxon chronicler that " his inaccuracy is more than compensated by his preservation of the English title applied to these outstanding kings ".

" English historian A. J. P.

Indeed John Morris, the English historian who specialized in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain, suggested in his book The Age of Arthur that as the descendants of Romanized Britons looked back to a golden age of peace and prosperity under Rome, the name " Camelot " of Arthurian legend may have referred to the capital of Britannia ( Camulodunum, modern Colchester ) in Roman times.

* 1678 – Daniel Neal, English historian ( d. 1743 )

( Incidentally, the date of Easter itself is fixed by an approximation of lunar cycles used in the Hebraic calendar, but according to the historian Bede the English name " Easter " comes from a pagan celebration by the Germanic tribes of the vernal ( spring ) equinox.

Edward Gibbon ( 27 April 173716 January 1794 ) was an English historian and Member of Parliament.

* 1912 – John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian ( d. 2003 )

* 1876 – George Macaulay Trevelyan, English historian ( d. 1962 )

* 1609 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian ( d. 1674 )

The Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle suggested somewhat more serious English names in his 1837 work The French Revolution: A History, namely Vintagearious, Fogarious, Frostarious, Snowous, Rainous, Windous, Buddal, Floweral, Meadowal, Reapidor, Heatidor, and Fruitidor.

During the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt trial it became evident that the court need to identify what was an " objective historian " in the same vein as the reasonable person, and reminiscent of the standard traditionally used in English law of " the man on the Clapham omnibus ".

Often called " the first modern historian ", the English scholar Edward Gibbon wrote his magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1776 – 1788 ).

* 1914 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian ( d. 2003 )

* 1922 – Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer ( d. 1986 )

* 1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian ( d. 1993 )

* 1931 – Eric Ives, English historian ( d. 2012 )

* 1794 – Edward Gibbon, English historian ( b. 1737 )

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

This resulted in revisions of the King James Bible in 1881-85 as the English Revised Version and in 1901 as the American Standard Version.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

* 1983 – James Wade, English darts player

* 1985 – James Alexandrou, English actor

Its notoriety arises from an incident in 1894 in which the then owner, an English landlady named Agnes McDonnell, was savagely beaten and the house set alight, allegedly by a local man, James Lynchehaun.

* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, English engineer ( d. 1896 )

* 1984 – James Morrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1910 – James Henry Govier, English painter ( d. 1974 )

* 1970 – David James, English footballer

* 1920 – P. D. James, English novelist

* 1987 – James Buckley, English actor

* 1887 – James Paul Moody, English 6th Officer of the RMS Titanic ( d. 1912 )

* 1983 – James Rossiter, English race car driver

Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F. B. A., F. R. S.

* 1947 – James Hunt, English race car driver ( d. 1993 )

* 1986 – Eleanor James, English actress and dancer

The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns and thrones on the Electress Sophia of Hanover ( a granddaughter of James I ) and her Protestant heirs.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.