A-Z: General definitions
- Early Church
- Early Modern
- Early modern English
- Ears to hear
- Easter
- Easter Rising
- Easter Sunday
- Ecce Homo
- Ecclesiastical
- Echo
- Ecriture feminine
- Ecumenical
- Eden
- Eden (Garden of)
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edmund Burke
- Edmund Spenser
- Edom
- Education Act of 1870
- Edward VII
- Edward VIII
- Edwardian
- Egypt
- Egyptian
- El Dorado
- El Greco
- Elder
- Elect
- Election
- Electra
- Elegiac
- Elegy
- Elevated lexis
- Elgin Marbles
- Eli
- Elide
- Eliezer and Rebecca
- Elihu
- Elijah
- Elisha
- Elizabeth
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Elizabeth I
- Elizabethan
- Ellipsis
- Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani?
- Eloise and Abelard
- Eloquence
- Eloquent
- Elysian
A-Z: General definitions: Edward VIII
Definition
British monarch from January - December 1936. He succeeded his father George V but renounced his position as King in favour of his brother, George VI, after just eleven months, in order to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
British King from 1920 - 1936.
British King from 1936 - 1952.
Divorced American socialite who married the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII.
