Showing results for "Frederick II" in Arts & Entertainment

Welcome to Black&Marvel fam! A podcast created by true believers in Marvel content where we cover the comics, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (better known as the MCU), games and more. We take the incredible stories that have been told through the years, across multiple mediums and dissect them through the lens of the Black perspective while also touching on topics including race, gender, sexuality, and more.

The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. The story follows the fortunes of the four Beverley children who are orphaned during the war, and hide from their Roundhead oppressors in the shelter of the New Forest where they learn to live off the land.The story begins in 1647 when King Charles I has been defeated in the civil war and has fled from London towards the New Forest. Parliamentary soldiers have been sent to search the forest and decide to burn Arnwood, the house of ...