Mrs. Gaa Senior English Research Paper Topics Anglo-Saxon Era Celts in Britain Viking Raids & Raiders Roman Influence on Britain The Real King Arthur Religions Christian Monasteries & Monks Role of Women in Anglo-Saxon Culture Life in Anglo-Saxon England Roman Conquest of Britain Hadrian’s Wall Battle of Hastings Druids Viking Attacks on Britain Stonehenge Alfred the Great Middle Ages Feudalism Knights and Knighthood English and Scottish Ballads Medieval Castles of England and Scotland Monasteries and Abbeys The Magna Carta The real Macbeth The real King Arthur Joan of Arc Medieval Architecture War of the Roses Medieval Drama Heraldry Scottish Clans Medieval Kings Women in Medieval Society The Black Death Medieval Weaponry and Armor Hundred Years War Geoffrey Chaucer The Spread of Christianity Thomas Becket (Archbishop of Canterbury) William Wallace (Braveheart; hero of Scotland) Witchcraft in England The Renaissance Renaissance Art Sports of the Renaissance Madrigals Development of Science Renaissance Inventions Kings & Queens (King Henry VII, Elizabeth I, King James, etc.) Anne Boleyn Queen Mary (Bloody Mary) The Founding of the Church of England Elizabethan Theatre: Actors, Customs, Practices, etc. Shakespeare Other famous writers of the Renaissance The Globe Theater Exploration during the Renaissance (Christopher Columbus) Italian artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Giotto, etc.) Martin Luther (church Reformation) King James Bible Elizabethan Dress The Seventeenth Century Civil War: The Struggle between the Puritans and the Cavaliers Royalty (Charles I, Charles II, etc.) Oliver Cromwell The Great Fire of 1666 Development of the King James Bible The Restoration Furniture (Sheraton, Chippendale, Hepplewaite) Poets 17th Century Theater French Revolution Jack the Ripper (serial killer) Wedgewood China Christopher Wren’s Architecture Life in the Seventeenth Century The Eighteenth Century Rise of the Novel Development of the Dictionary English Inns & Pubs Royalty (Queen Anne, George I, George II, etc.) Coffee Houses Colonization of the New World The Industrial Revolution Child Labor in England American Revolution from the British Point of View Life in Eighteenth Century England Karl Marx Darwin & theory of evolution The Nineteenth Century: The Romantic & Victorian Periods The Romantic Poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, etc.) Famous Battles (Trafalgar, Waterloo, Opium War with China, etc.) Charles Dickens Other famous novelists (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bronte sisters, Lewis Carroll, etc.) Poets of the Victorian Period (Browning, Barrett-Browning, etc.) Life in Victorian England Charles Darwin & the theory of evolution Queen Victoria Benjamin Disraeli Victorian Dress “Hungry Forties” Great Exhibition of 1851 Drama/theater The Empire and the East India Company Michael Faraday John Merrick: the Elephant Man Russian Revolution Nelson’s Flagship: HMS Victory Gothic Novels The Effect of the Industrial Revolution on England Mary Shelley & Frankenstein The Effect of the French Revolution on England Cholera epidemic of London The Effect of the American Revolution on England Florence Nightingale British South Africa Company 20th Century Boer War British musicians (The Beatles) W.W. I (some specific aspect) Titanic Lusitania Royalty (Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, Princess Diana,) England’s famous tourist attractions 20th Century Art W.W. II (some specific aspect) British fashion J.K. Rowling & Harry Potter series Misc. Topics Tower of London London Bridge St. Paul’s Cathedral Thames River House of Parliament Loch Ness Monster England’s Prison System Gilbert and Sullivan Present Day Struggles with Ireland The Royal Academy The London Theater Abbey Theater North Sea Oil Discoveries Cricket Development of the English Language Andrew Lloyd Weber Buckingham Palace Westminster Abbey Windsor Castle Scotland Yard Malthusian Doctrine Current English royalty (Prince William & Kate Middleton) Wimbledon: Traditions Kew Gardens Irish Customs Oxford University Rolls Royce Automobiles Canterbury Cathedral Rugby Development of Golf Explanation of British Royalty Mystery Circles in English Fields