Anglo Saxon.

Anglo Saxon dress between the years 500 to 1000.

Word Origins:

Kin from Kin, Family, Tribe.

Monday from Monandaeg meaning Day of The Moon.

Tuesday from Tiwesdaeg meaning Day of Tiw or Tew, The God Of Darkness and Sky.

Wednesday from Wednesdaeg meaning Day of Woden or Odin. The God Of Battle.

Thursday from Þunresdæg meaning Day of Thor or Tor, Son Of Odin And God Of Air And Thunder.

Friday from Frigedaeg, meaning Day of Frigg, Frea, Freya or Frija, Wife Of Odin And Goddess Of Love, Motherhood, Fertility And Wisdom.

Saturday from Saturnesdaeg meaning Day Of Saturn.

Sunday from Sunnandaeg meaning Day Of Sun.

Easter from Eostre, The Goddess Of Dawn Or Sunrise.

Freya by J. Doyle Penrose.

Rural Society.

Far from the Madding Crowd.

Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1967 British drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted from the book of the same name by Thomas Hardy.

A rural life was the reality for most of the English until the Industrial Revolution which brought people to the cities.
The Industrial Revolution is the period encompassing the vast social and economic changes that resulted from the development of steam-powered machinery and mass-production methods, beginning in about 1760 in Great Britain and extending through the first half of the nineteenth century. The lives of large sections of the population of Great Britain underwent massive changes during the industrial revolution. Work became more regimented and disciplined, and began to take place outside the home.
Perhaps the first sign of the revolution was in the enclosure movement, which started in the 16th century and peaked from about 1760 to 1832. This movement often enclosed lands held in common and assigned ownership to large landowners, who were motivated to improve them by draining wetland, ditching, introducing new crops and better cultivation techniques and so on. These measures improved farm productivity, and at the same time drove some farm workers into the cities.
A movement of the population to the cities from the countryside produced dramatic changes in lifestyle.

Early Britain.circa.540.

Alfred Edward Housman.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Walter Crane.

Walter Crane 1845-1915 was an English artist and book illustrator he was born in Liverpool, England on 15 August 1845. He studied the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and was also a student of the artist and critic John Ruskin. He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement. Here is a map of The British Empire beautifully illustrated by him.

Lyme Park.

Lyme Park the setting for Pemberley in the BBC 1995 series of Jane Austen's Pride And Predjudice.

Darcy (Colin Firth).

Jane Austen.