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The Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people.
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Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons
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The material of the Eddas, taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy
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David Hume publishes his Treatise of Human Nature, in which he applies to the human mind the principles of experimental science
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A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame
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Bernard Shaw has two new plays opening in London in the same year, Major Barbara and Man and Superman
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Virginia Woolf publishes the most fluid of her novels, The Waves, in which she tells the story through six interior monologues
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The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials
