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John Allen Giles (1808–1884) was an English historian. He was primarily known as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon language and history. He revised Stevens' translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. He was a fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[1]

  1. ^ 1852 reprinted in Good stories from Oxford and Cambridge and the dioceses 1922 "Miss Brassie spilled a glass of wine when she was eight years old ; J. A. Giles was sitting next to her, and observed that it was an unladylike thing. " Not so unladylike," replied she, " to spill the wine, as it is ungentlemanlike in you to tell me of it."

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Ecclesiastical History of the English People

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Paternoster Row, and T. Meighan in Drury Lane) full text 1845: (in English) John Allen Giles (London: James Bohn) full text. 1866: (in German) M. M. Wilden. Kirchengeschichte...

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Latin) Henry Coxe (1841–44): vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 4, Appendix John Allen Giles (1849): vol 1, vol 2 (in Latin) Henry Gay Hewlett, for the Rolls series...

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the same to bee a monument of some moment." Later historians such as John Allen Giles followed this suggestion as the most likely location. The figures were...

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Regum Anglorum, published in 1127. This was translated into English by John Allen Giles as William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the kings of England: from...

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Chronicon Angliae Petriburgense

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a collection of English histories by various writers. According to John Allen Giles, in the preface to his own edition published by the Caxton Society...

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Wall of Severus

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SEVERUS". www.dot-domesday.me.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2018. Bede (1843). John Allen Giles (ed.). The Complete Works of Venerable Bede. London: Whittaker and...

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Paris House at St Albans High School for Girls is named after him. John Allen Giles (translator), Matthew Paris' English history, from 1235 to 1273, Publ...

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English translations of Homer

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by Newman, F.W. London: Walton and Maberly. "OBITUARY. - THE REV. JOHN ALLEN GILES" (PDF). New York Times. 26 September 1884. Retrieved 3 August 2011...

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Dialogue of Jason and Papiscus

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Farmer Giles of Ham

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