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Key developments in online video web sight. 1974–1992. Development of practical video coding standards. The development of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) lossy compression method leads to the first practical video formats, H.261 and MPEG, initially used for online video conferencing . 1993–2004.
Michael David Wood, OBE, FSA (born 23 July 1948) is an English historian and broadcaster. He has presented numerous well-known television documentary series from the late 1970s to the present day. Wood has also written a number of books on English history, including In Search of the Dark Ages, The Domesday Quest, The Story of England, and In ...
The New Oxford History of England is a book series on the history of the British Isles. It was commissioned in 1992 and produced eleven volumes by 2010, but as of March 2024, no more volumes have appeared. [1] It is the successor to the Oxford History of England (1934–86). Trevor Burnard argues the series is better historiography than the ...
List of Boshin War and Satsuma Rebellion films. List of Franco-Prussian War films. List of Mexican Revolution and Cristero War films. List of World War I films. List of Irish revolutionary period films. List of Spanish Civil War films. List of films about the Spanish Maquis. List of World War II films. List of Korean War films.
Bridgerton is an American historical romance television series created by Chris Van Dusen for Netflix. Based on the book series by Julia Quinn, it is Shondaland 's first scripted show for Netflix. The series is set during the early 1800s in an alternative London Regency era, in which George III established racial equality and granted many ...
The book, The World at War, published the same year, was written by Mark Arnold-Forster to accompany the TV series. The World at War attracted widespread acclaim and now it is regarded as a landmark in British television history. [4] The series focused on a portrayal of the experience of the conflict: of how life and death throughout the war ...
The Saxon Stories. The Saxon Stories (also known as Saxon Tales / Saxon Chronicles in the US and The Warrior Chronicles and most recently as The Last Kingdom series) is a historical novel series written by Bernard Cornwell about the birth of England in the ninth and tenth centuries. The series consists of 13 novels.
Silbury Hill, c. 2400 BC. England has been continuously inhabited since the last Ice Age ended around 9000 BC, the beginning of the Middle Stone Age, or Mesolithic era. Rising sea-levels cut off Britain from the continent for the last time around 6500 BC.