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Table of Contents

• Preface to the first edition
• Preface to previous revised print edition
• Preface to second edition
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements from John Cannon
• Note to the reader
• A
• abbeys and priories
• Abbey theatre
• Abbot George 1562–1633
• abdication crisis, 1936
• Aberconwy, peace of, 1277
• Aberdeen,
• Aberdeen, battle of, 1644
• Aberdeen, cathedrals
• Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th earl of 1784–1860
• Aberfan disaster
• Abernethy, submission of, 1072
• Abyssinian War, 1935–6
• Aclea, battle of, 0851
• Acre, defence of, 1799
• Acre, siege of, 1189–91
• Acton, Sir John, 1st Baron Acton 1834–1902
• Acton Burnell, statute of, 1283
• Acts of Parliament.
• Adam Robert 1728–92
• Adams Gerry.
• Addington, Henry, 1st Viscount Sidmouth 1757–1844
• Addison Joseph 1672–1719
• ‘Addled Parliament’
• Adela of Louvain
• Adelaide
• Aden
• Admiralty
• Admiralty, Court of
• Admonition to the Parliament, 1572
• Adomnán St
• Adrian IV
• Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian 1889–1977
• Adullamites
• advertising
• advowsons
• Adwalton Moor, battle of, 1643
• Æd
• Ædan mac Gabhrain
• Ælfheah
• Ælle
• Ælle
• aeronautical industry
• Æthelbald
• Æthelbert
• Æthelburg
• Æthelfleda, lady of the Mercians
• Æthelfryth
• Æthelheard
• Æthelnoth
• Æthelred
• Æthelred
• Æthelred I
• Æthelred, lord of the Mercians
• Æthelred II
• Æthelthryth St (St Ætheldreda, St Audrey)
• Æthelwold St
• Æthelwulf
• Aetius Flavius
• Afghan campaign
• Afghan wars
• Africa, partition of
• Africa Company.
• Agadir crisis, 1911
• Agincourt, battle of, 1415
• Agreement of the People, 1647
• Agricola Gnaeus Iulius.
• agricultural revolution
• agriculture
• Aidan St
• aids, feudal.
• Ailred of Rievaulx
• air travel
• Aix-la-Chapelle, treaty of, 1748
• Akeman Street
• Alabama case
• Alanbrooke, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount 1883–1963
• Alba, kingdom of
• Alban St
• Albany, Alexander Stewart, 1st duke of
• Albany, John Stewart, 2nd duke of
• Albany, Murdac Stewart, 2nd duke of
• Albany, Robert Stewart, 1st duke of
• Albert prince consort 1819–61
• Albert Memorial
• Albion
• Albuera, battle of, 1811
• alchemy,
• Alcock John 1430–1500
• Alcuin
• Aldhelm
• Alexander I
• Alexander II
• Alexander III
• Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1st Earl Alexander 1891–1969
• Alexander, Sir William, 1st earl of Stirling
• Alexandra
• Alexandria, battle of, 1801
• Alford, battle of, 1645
• Alfred
• Alfred the Atheling
• Algeciras
• Algiers, bombardment of, 1816
• Allectus
• allegiance, oaths of
• Allen William 1532–94
• Allenby, Edmund, 1st Viscount Allenby 1861–1936
• Alliance Party
• Alma, battle of, 1854
• almanacks
• Almanza, battle of, 1707
• Almenara, battle of, 1710
• almshouses,
• Alnwick, battle of, 1093
• Alnwick, battle of, 1174
• Alnwick castle
• Alresford, battle of.
• Alternative Vote (AV) referendum
• Althorp, John Charles Spencer, Viscount, 3rd Earl Spencer 1782–1845
• Amboyna massacre, 1623
• Ambrosius Aurelianus,
• America
• American Cemetery
• American War.
• American War of Independence, 1775–83
• Amherst, Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron 1717–97
• Amiens, mise of, 1264
• Amiens, treaty of, 1802
• Amritsar massacre, 1919
• anabaptists or re-baptizers
• anarchism
• anchorites,
• Ancrum Moor, battle of, 1545
• Anderson Elizabeth Garrett 1836–1917
• Andrew St
• Andrewes Lancelot 1555–1626
• Aneurin (late 6th cent.).
• Angevin empire
• Angles.
• Anglesey
• Anglesey, Henry William Paget, 1st marquis of 1768–1854
• Anglicanism.
• angling
• Anglo-catholicism
• Anglo-Dutch wars
• Anglo-Irish agreement
• Anglo-Irish ascendancy (protestant ascendancy).
• Anglo-Irish treaty, 1921
• Anglo-Japanese treaty, 1902
• Anglo-Russian entente, 1907
• Anglo-Saxon art and architecture
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
• Anglo-Saxons
• Anglo-Scottish border.
• Anglo-Scottish wars.
• Angus, Archibald Douglas, 5th earl of
• Angus, Archibald Douglas, 6th earl of
• Angus MacFergus (Oengus MacFergus)
• Anjou
• Annates, Acts in Restraint of
• Anne
• Anne of Bohemia
• Anne Boleyn
• Anne of Cleves
• Anne of Denmark
• Anne Neville
• Anselm St 1033–1109
• Anson, George, 1st Baron Anson 1697–1762
• anticlericalism,
• Anti-Corn Law League
• Antigua
• Anti-Jacobin
• antinomianism (‘against the law’)
• Antiquaries, Society of
• anti-slavery
• Antonine Wall
• Antrim
• Anzacs
• Apology of the Commons, 1604
• Appeals, Act in Restraint of
• appeasement
• appellants
• Apprentice Boys
• apprenticeship
• Aquitaine
• Arbroath, declaration of
• Arbroath abbey
• Arch Joseph 1826–1919
• archaeology
• archbishops
• archdeacons
• archery
• Arches, Court of
• architecture
• archives.
• Arcot, siege of, 1751
• Areopagitica,
• Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 5th earl of
• Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 1st marquis of
• Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 9th earl of
• Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 10th earl of
• Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 3rd duke of
• Argyll, Colin Campbell, Lord Lorne, 1st earl of
• Argyll, Colin Campbell, 6th earl of
• Argyll, John Campbell, 2nd duke of 1678–1743
• aristocracy
• Arkinholm, battle of, 1455
• Arklow, battle of, 1798
• Ark Royal
• Arkwright Sir Richard 1732–92
• Arlington, Henry Bennet, 1st earl of 1618–85
• Armada, Spanish
• Armagh
• Armagh, archiepiscopal diocese of (archiepiscopal diocese of Ard Machae).
• Arminianism
• armour
• Arms, Assize of
• Arms, College of.
• Armstrong, William Armstrong, 1st Baron 1810–1900
• army
• Arnhem, battle of, 1944
• Arnold Matthew 1822–88
• Arnold Thomas 1795–1842
• Arran, Thomas Boyd, earl of
• Arran, James Hamilton, 2nd earl of
• Arran, James Hamilton, 3rd earl of
• Arran, James Stewart, 4th earl of
• Arras, Congress of, 1435
• array, commissions of
• Arrow War, 1856–60
• Arsuf, battle of, 1191
• art galleries
• Arthur
• Arthur Prince
• Arthur, Prince of Wales
• Articles of Grievances, 1689
• Artificers, statute of, 1563
• Arundel, Henry Fitz Alan, 12th earl of 1512–80
• Arundel, Philip Howard, 13th earl of 1557–95
• Arundel, Thomas Howard, 14th earl of 1585–1646
• Arundel Thomas 1352–1414
• Arundel castle
• Ascham Roger
• Ashanti wars (Asante wars).
• Ashburton treaty, 1842
• Ashdown, battle of, 0871
• Ashdown, Sir Jeremy John Durham (‘Paddy’)
• Ashingdon, battle of, 1016
• asiento
• Aske Robert
• Askew Anne 1521–46
• Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st earl of Oxford and Asquith 1852–1928
• Asser
• assizes
• associations
• Astley Sir Jacob 1579–1652
• Astor, Nancy W. 1879–1964
• astrology
• asylum
• asylums
• atheism
• Athelstan
• Athenry, battle of, 1316
• athletics
• Atholl, James Murray, 2nd duke of
• Atholl, John Murray, 1st marquis of
• Atholl, John Murray, 1st duke of
• Atholl, John Stewart, 4th earl of
• Atholl, Walter Stewart, earl of
• Atholl, John of Strathbogie, earl of
• Atlantic, battle of the, 1939–45
• Atlantic charter
• atom bomb.
• Atrebates
• Attacotti
• attainder, Acts of
• Atterbury Francis 1663–1732
• Attlee, Clement, 1st Earl Attlee 1883–1967
• attorney-general
• Attwood Thomas 1783–1856
• Aubrey John 1626–97
• Auchinleck Claude 1884–1981
• Auchinleck manuscript
• Auckland, George Eden, 1st earl of 1784–1849
• Auckland, William Eden, 1st Baron 1744–1814
• Auden, W. H. 1907–73
• Audley, Thomas, 1st Baron Audley of Walden 1488–1544
• Audley End
• Aughrim, battle of, 1691
• Augustine St
• Augustinian canons (or ‘Regular’ or ‘Black’ canons)
• Augustinian friars (or Austin friars)
• Auld Alliance.
• Auldearn, battle of, 1645
• Aulus Plautius
• Auray, battle of, 1364
• Austen Jane 1775–1817
• Austin Herbert 1866–1941
• Australia, Commonwealth of
• Austria, relations with
• Austrian Succession, War of the
• Authorized Version.
• Avon
• Avranches, compromise of
• Aylesbury case
• B
• Babbage Charles
• Babington plot, 1586
• Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam, 1st Viscount St Albans 1561–1626
• Bacon Sir Nicholas 1510–79
• Bacon Roger
• Baden-Powell, Robert 1857–1941
• badminton
• Baffin William
• Bagehot Walter 1826–77
• Baginbun, battle of, 1170
• Bahamas
• Baillie Robert 1599–1662
• Baird John Logie 1888–1946
• Bakewell Robert 1725–95
• Balaclava, battle of, 1854
• balance of power
• Baldwin
• Baldwin Stanley 1867–1947
• Balfour, Arthur James, 1st earl of 1848–1930
• Balfour declaration
• Ball John
• ballads
• ballet
• Balliol Edward
• Balliol John
• Ballymore Hill, battle of, 1798
• Balmoral
• Baltimore, George Calvert, 1st Lord
• Bamburgh castle
• Bamford Samuel 1788–1872
• Banbury, battle of.
• Bancroft Richard 1544–1610
• Banda Hastings Kamuzo
• Bangladesh
• Bangor, diocese of
• Bangorian controversy
• Bank Charter Act, 1844
• Bank Holiday Act, 1871
• banking
• Banks Sir Joseph 1743–1820
• Banks of England, Ireland, and Scotland
• banneret and banret
• Bannockburn, battle of, 1314
• Banqueting House (Whitehall).
• baptists
• Barbados
• Barbour John
• Barebone's Parliament
• Barham, Charles Middleton, 1st Lord 1726–1813
• Baring, Evelyn, 1st earl of Cromer 1841–1917
• Barnardo Thomas John 1845–1905
• Barnes Robert 1495–1540
• Barnet, battle of, 1471
• baronets
• barons
• baroque
• barrier treaties
• Barrosa, battle of, 1811
• Barrow Henry
• Barrow Isaac 1630–77
• Barrow Sir John 1764–1848
• Barry Sir Charles 1795–1860
• Barry James 1741–1806
• Bartholomew
• Barton Elizabeth
• Basilikon doron
• bastard feudalism
• Bastwick John 1593–1654
• Basutoland.
• Bath
• Bath, Order of the
• Bath abbey
• Bath and Wells, diocese of
• Bathurst, Henry, 2nd Earl Bathurst 1714–94
• Bathurst, Henry, 3rd Earl Bathurst 1762–1834
• ‘Bats, Parliament of’, 1426
• Battle abbey
• Baugé, battle of, 1421
• Baxter Richard 1615–91
• Bayeux Tapestry
• Beachy Head, battle of, 1690
• beagling
• Beale Dorothea 1831–1906
• bear-baiting
• Beatles
• Beaton David
• Beatty, Sir David, later 1st Earl Beatty 1871–1936
• Beauchamp, Guy de, 10th earl of Warwick
• Beauchamp, Richard, 13th earl of Warwick 1382–1439
• Beaufort, Edmund, duke of Somerset
• Beaufort Henry
• Beaufort Joan
• Beaufort Lady Margaret 1443–1509
• Beaufort, Thomas, duke of Exeter
• Beaumaris castle,
• Beaverbrook Lord 1879–1964
• Bechuanaland.
• Becket Thomas
• Beckett Samuel 1900–89
• Beckford William 1709–70
• Bedchamber crisis, 1839
• Bede St
• Bedford, John of Lancaster, duke of 1389–1435
• Bedford, Francis Russell, 4th earl of 1593–1641
• Bedford, John Russell, 1st earl of
• Bedford, John Russell, 4th duke of 1710–71
• Bedford level
• Bedfordshire
• Bedlam, more properly Bethlem hospital,
• Beecham Sir Thomas 1879–1961
• Beechey Sir William 1753–1839
• Beeton Mrs 1836–65
• Beggar's Opera, The
• Behn Aphra 1640–89
• Bek Anthony
• Belfast
• Belgae
• Belgium, relations with
• Belize
• Bell Alexander Graham 1847–1922
• Bell Andrew 1753–1852
• Bell George 1883–1958
• Bell Gertrude 1868–1926
• Bell Henry 1767–1830
• Benbow John 1653–1702
• Benburb, battle of, 1646
• Benedict Biscop
• Benedictines (or ‘black’ monks).
• benefit of clergy
• benevolences
• Bengal, acquisition of
• Bennett Arnold 1867–1931
• Bennington, battle of, 1777
• Benson, battle of
• Benson Edward 1829–96
• Bentham Jeremy 1748–1832
• Bentinck Lord George 1802–48
• Bentinck Lord William 1774–1839
• Bentley Richard 1662–1742
• Beowulf
• Berengaria
• Beresford John 1738–1805
• Berkeley George 1685–1753
• Berkeley castle
• Berkshire
• Berlin, Congress of, 1878
• Bermuda
• Bernicia, kingdom of
• Bertha,
• Berwick, James FitzJames, 1st duke of 1670–1734
• Berwick, treaty of, 1357
• Berwick, treaty of, 1560
• Berwick-on-Tweed
• Besant Annie 1847–1933
• ‘Bess of Hardwick’.
• Bessemer Sir Henry 1813–98
• Betjeman Sir John 1906–84
• Bevan Aneurin 1897–1960
• Beveridge, William H. 1879–1963
• Beverley
• Bevin Ernest 1881–1951
• Bewcastle cross
• Bewick Thomas 1755–1828
• Bible
• Bible Christians
• Bible Society
• Biddle John 1615–62
• Biedcanford, battle of
• Big Ben,
• Bignor
• Bigod, Roger, 4th earl of Norfolk
• Bigod, Roger, 5th earl of Norfolk 1245–1306
• billeting
• billiards and snooker
• Bill of Rights
• Birgham, treaty of, 1290
• Birkbeck George 1776–1841
• Birkenhead, HMS, 1852
• Birkett William Norman 1883–1962
• Birmingham
• Birmingham, diocese of
• Birmingham Political Union
• Birmingham riots, 1791
• birth control
• bishops
• Bishops’ wars, 1639–40
• Black Joseph 1728–99
• Black and Tans
• Blackburn, diocese of
• Black Death
• ‘Black Dinner’, 1440
• Blackheath, battle of, 1497
• Black Hole of Calcutta
• Black Parliament, 1320
• ‘Black Prince’.
• Blackstone Sir William 1723–80
• Blackwater, battle of.
• Blackwood William 1776–1834
• Bladensburg, battle of, 1814
• Blair Anthony (‘Tony’ Blair)
• Blake Robert 1599–1657
• Blake William 1757–1827
• Blanketeers, March of the, 1817
• blasphemy
• Blatchford, Robert Peel Granville 1851–1943
• Blenheim, battle of, 1704
• Blenheim palace
• Bligh William 1754–1817
• Blitz
• Bloemfontein, convention of, 1854
• Blois, treaty of, 1572
• Bloody Assizes
• ‘Bloody Sunday’
• Bloomsbury Group
• Blore Heath, battle of, 1459
• Blyton Enid Mary 1897–1968
• Boat Race
• Bodiam castle,
• Bodley Sir Thomas 1545–1613
• Boece Hector (Hector Boethius)
• Boer wars
• Bohun, Humphry de, 3rd earl of Hereford
• Bohun, Humphry de, 4th earl of Hereford
• Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st Viscount
• Bombay (Mumbai)
• Bondfield, Margaret G. 1873–1953
• Boniface St
• Bonner Edmund
• Book of Common Order
• Book of Common Prayer
• Book of Homilies
• book of sports
• Books of Discipline
• Boot Jesse 1850–1931
• Booth Charles 1840–1916
• Booth William 1829–1912
• Boothroyd Betty
• Booth's rising
• Borders
• Borneo North
• Boroughbridge, battle of, 1322
• borough English
• boroughs
• Boscawen Edward 1711–61
• Boston,
• Boston ‘massacre’, 1770
• Boston Tea Party, 1773
• Boswell James 1740–95
• Bosworth, battle of, 1485
• Botany Bay,
• Bothwell, James Hepburn, 4th earl of
• Bothwell, Francis Stewart, 1st earl of
• Bothwell Bridge, battle of, 1679
• Botswana
• Boudicca
• Boulton Matthew 1728–1809
• boundary commission
• Bounty, HMS
• Bourchier Thomas
• Bourges, treaty of, 1412
• Bouvines, battle of, 1214
• Bower Walter
• bowls
• Bow Street runners
• Boxer Rising, 1900
• boxing
• Boycott Charles Cunningham 1837–97
• Boyd, Robert, Lord
• Boyle Robert 1627–91
• Boyne, battle of the, 1690
• Boys’ Brigade
• Boy Scouts
• Bracton Sir Henry
• Braddock Down, battle of, 1643
• Bradford
• Bradford, diocese of
• Bradford on Avon,
• Bradlaugh Charles 1833–91
• Bradshaw John 1602–59
• Bradwardine Thomas 1290–1349
• Bramham Moor, battle of, 1408
• Brandywine, battle of, 1777
• Braose William de
• brass bands
• Breadalbane, John Campbell, 1st earl of
• ‘Bread or blood’ riots, 1816
• Brecon cathedral.
• Breconshire
• Breda, declaration of, 1660
• Breda, treaty of, 1667
• Breedon
• Brémule, battle of, 1119
• Brentford, Patrick Ruthven, 1st earl of
• Brétigny, treaty of, 1360
• bretwalda
• brewing
• Brian Boru
• Bridewell
• bridge
• Bridgeman Charles
• bridges
• Bridgwater, Francis Egerton, 3rd duke of 1736–1803
• Brigantes
• Briggitines
• Bright John 1811–89
• Brighton
• Brigit St
• Brihuega, battle of, 1710
• Brindley James 1716–72
• Bristol
• Bristol, diocese of
• Bristol, St Mary, Redcliffe
• Bristol riots, 1831
• Britain, Battle of, 1940
• Britannia,
• British Academy
• British and Foreign School Society
• British Association for the Advancement of Science
• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
• British empire
• British Empire, Order of the
• British Guiana.
• British Honduras.
• British Museum and Library
• British National Party
• British Somaliland
• British Union of Fascists
• Britons
• Britten Benjamin 1913–76
• Brixworth
• ‘broad-bottom administration’
• broad church
• Brontë family
• Brooke, Sir Basil, 1st Lord Brookeborough 1880–1974
• Brooke Sir James 1803–68
• Brooks's,
• Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux 1778–1868
• Brown George 1914–85
• Brown, (James) Gordon
• Brown Lancelot
• Browne Robert
• Browne Sir Thomas 1605–82
• Browning Robert 1812–89
• Bruce Edward
• Bruce James 1730–94
• Bruce Marjorie
• Bruce Robert 1210–95
• Bruce Robert
• Bruce, Robert I of Scotland
• Brudenell James Thomas
• Bruges, treaty of, 1375
• Brummell George
• Brunanburh, battle of, 0937
• Brunei
• Brunel Isambard Kingdom 1806–59
• Brussels, treaty of
• ‘Brutus’.
• Brut y tywysogyon (‘Chronicle of the Princes’)
• Bryce James 1838–1922
• Brycheiniog
• Buchan, Alexander Comyn, earl of
• Buchan, John Comyn, earl of
• Buchan, William Comyn, earl of
• Buchan, Alexander Stewart, 1st earl of
• Buchan, John Stewart, 3rd earl of
• Buchanan George 1506–82
• Buckingham, John Sheffield, 1st duke of 1647–1721
• Buckingham, Edward Stafford, 3rd duke of 1478–1521
• Buckingham, Henry Stafford, 2nd duke of 1455–83
• Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st duke of 1592–1628
• Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd duke of 1628–87
• Buckingham palace
• Buckinghamshire
• budget
• ‘Bulge, battle of the’, 1944
• Buller, Sir Redvers Henry 1839–1906
• Bunker Hill, battle of, 1775
• Bunyan John 1628–88
• Burbage Richard
• Burdett Sir Francis 1770–1844
• Burford, battle of
• burgages
• Burgh Hubert de
• Burghley, William Cecil, 1st Lord 1520–98
• burghs,
• Burgoyne John 1723–92
• Burke Edmund 1729–97
• Burke and Hare
• Burley-on-the-hill,
• Burlington, Richard Boyle, 3rd earl of Burlington and 4th earl of Cork 1684–1753
• Burma (Myanmar)
• Burma campaigns
• Burmese wars
• Burnell Robert
• Burnet Gilbert 1643–1715
• Burney Charles 1726–1814
• Burney Frances (Fanny)
• Burns, John E. 1858–1943
• Burns Robert 1759–96
• Burton Sir Richard 1821–90
• Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich, diocese of
• Busaco, battle of, 1810
• buses
• Buss Frances Mary 1827–94
• Bute, John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd marquis of 1847–1900
• Bute, John Stuart, 3rd earl of
• butler
• Butler Joseph 1692–1752
• Butler Josephine 1828–1906
• Butler Richard Austen 1902–82
• Butler Samuel 1612–80
• Butler Samuel 1835–1902
• Butt Dame Clara 1872–1936
• Butt Isaac 1813–79
• Butterfield William 1814–1900
• Butterworth George 1885–1916
• Buxton Thomas Fowell 1786–1845
• Bye plot, 1603
• Byland, battle of, 1322
• Byng, George, 1st Viscount Torrington 1664–1733
• Byng John 1704–57
• Byrd William
• Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron 1788–1824
• Byron, John, 1st Baron Byron 1599–1652
• C
• cabal
• cabinet
• Cabot John (d. 1498) and Sebastian (1474–1557).
• Cade Jack
• Cadoc, St.
• Cadwaladr
• Cadwaladr
• Cadwallon
• Cadwgan (Cadogan)
• Cædmon
• Cædwalla
• Caen, treaty of, 1091
• Caerleon
• Caernarfon castle
• Caernarfonshire
• Caerphilly castle,
• Caerwent
• Caesar Julius.
• Cairns, Hugh, 1st Earl Cairns 1819–85
• Caistor by Norwich,
• Calais, possession of
• Calais, treaty of, 1360
• Calcutta (Kolkata)
• Caledonii
• calendar reform, 1751
• Calgacus
• Callaghan James 1912–2005
• Calvert George
• Calvinism,
• Cambridge, George, 2nd duke of 1819–1904
• Cambridge, Great St Mary's
• Cambridge, Richard of Conisborough, 1st earl of 1385–1415
• Cambridgeshire
• Cambridge University
• Cambuskenneth abbey
• Camden, battle of, 1780
• Camden, Charles Pratt, 1st Earl 1714–94
• Camden, John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquis 1759–1840
• Camden William 1551–1623
• Cameron David (William Donald)
• Cameron Donald 1695–1748
• Cameron Richard 1648–80
• Cameronians
• Cameroon
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
• Campbell, Sir Colin, 1st Baron Clyde 1792–1863
• Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry 1836–1908
• Campbell family
• Campden Wonder
• Camperdown, battle of, 1797
• Campion Edmund 1540–81
• Canada
• canal system
• Canning, Charles John, 1st Earl 1812–62
• Canning George 1770–1827
• canon law
• Canterbury
• Canterbury, metropolitan diocese of
• Canterbury, quitclaim of, 1189
• Canterbury Tales
• Cantiaci
• Cape Breton Island
• Cape Finisterre, battles of, 1747
• Cape of Good Hope
• Cape Passaro, battle of, 1718
• Cape St Vincent, battle of, 1797
• capitalism
• capital punishment
• Caracalla
• Caratacus,
• Carausius.
• Carberry Hill, encounter at, 1567
• Carbisdale, battle of, 1650
• Cardiff
• Cardigan, James Brudenell, 7th earl of 1797–1868
• Cardiganshire
• cards, playing
• Cardwell Edward 1813–86
• Carey George
• Carey Henry
• Carham, battle of, 1018
• Carisbrooke castle
• Carlile Richard 1790–1843
• Carlisle, Charles Howard, 1st earl of 1628–85
• Carlisle, Charles Howard, 3rd earl of 1669–1738
• Carlisle, diocese of
• Carlisle, statute of, 1307
• Carlton Club
• Carlyle Thomas 1795–1881
• Carmarthenshire
• Carmelites
• Carnarvon, Henry Molyneux Herbert, 4th earl of 1831–90
• Carnatic wars
• Carnegie Andrew 1835–1919
• Caroline of Brandenburg-Anspach
• Caroline of Brunswick
• carols
• Carr, Robert, 1st Viscount Rochester, 1st earl of Somerset
• Carrington, Peter, 6th Baron Carrington
• Carroll Lewis, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
• Carson Sir Edward 1854–1935
• Carstares William 1649–1715
• Carteret, John, 2nd Baron Carteret, 1st Earl Granville 1690–1763
• Carthusians
• Cartimandua,
• cartography.
• Cartwright Edmund 1743–1823
• Cartwright Major John 1740–1824
• Cartwright Thomas 1535–1603
• Carvetii
• Casablanca conference
• Casement Sir Roger 1864–1916
• Cashel, archiepiscopal diocese of
• Cashel, Council of, 1171
• Casket Letters
• Cassivellaunus
• Castillon, battle of, 1453
• ‘Castlebar races’, 1798
• Castle Howard,
• Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 2nd marquess of Londonderry 1769–1822
• castles
• Cat and Mouse Act, 1913
• Cateau-Cambrésis, treaty of, 1559
• cathedrals
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• catholic emancipation
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• Cato Street conspiracy
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• Catuvellauni
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• cavaliers
• Cavell Edith 1865–1915
• Cavendish Lord Frederick 1836–82
• Cavendish Henry 1731–1810
• Cavendish Thomas 1560–92
• Cavendish William
• Cawnpore (Kanpur)
• Caxton William
• Ceawlin
• Cecil Sir Robert 1563–1612
• celibacy, clerical
• céli Dé,
• Celtic church
• Celts
• censorship
• Census Act, 1800
• Central
• Cenwalh
• Cenwulf
• Ceolnoth, archbishop of Canterbury
• Ceolwulf
• ceorl
• ceramics
• Cerdic, House of
• Ceylon.
• Chad St (St Ceadda)
• Chadwick Edwin 1800–90
• Chalgrove Field, battle of, 1643
• chamber
• Chamberlain Sir Austen 1863–1937
• Chamberlain Joseph 1836–1914
• chamberlain, lord great
• Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville
• Chambers Ephraim
• Chambers William 1800–83
• Chambers Sir William 1723–96
• champion of England
• Chanak crisis
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• chancellor of the Exchequer
• Chancery, Court of
• Chandos Sir John
• Channel Islands
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• chantries
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• chapters and chapter houses
• Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854
• charity schools
• Charlemont, James Caulfeild, 1st earl of
• Charles I
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• Charles Thomas 1755–1814
• Charleston, battle of, 1780
• Charlotte Augusta, Princess 1796–1817
• Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• charters
• chartism
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• Chatsworth House
• Chaucer Geoffrey
• Chaumont, treaty of, 1814
• Chedworth
• Cheke Sir John 1514–57
• Chelmsford, diocese of
• Royal Hospital Chelsea
• Cheltenham Gold Cup
• chemical industry
• Chepstow castle
• Chequers,
• Cheriton, battle of, 1644
• Cheshire,
• chess
• Chester
• Chester, battle of
• Chester, diocese of
• Chesterfield, battle of, 1266
• Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of 1694–1773
• Chester-le-Street, diocese of
• Chesterton Gilbert Keith 1874–1936
• Chevy Chase, battle of.
• Chichele Henry
• Chichester Roman
• Chichester, Arthur, 1st Baron
• Chichester, diocese of
• Chichester-Clark, James, Lord Moyola
• Child, Sir Josiah, baronet
• childbirth
• Childers Robert Erskine 1870–1922
• children
• Chillingworth William 1602–44
• Chiltern hundreds
• Chimney Sweeps Act, 1875
• China, relations with
• China wars
• Chippendale Thomas 1718–79
• Chippenham, battle of, 0878
• Chippenham, treaty of.
• chivalry
• choirs
• cholera,
• Christadelphians
• Christianity,
• Christian socialism.
• Christmas
• Church Army
• church commissioners.
• churches.
• Churchill Lord Randolph 1849–95
• Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer 1874–1965
• Church in Wales
• Church Missionary Society
• Church of England
• Church of Ireland
• Church of Scotland
• churchwardens
• cinema
• Cinque Ports
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• Cirencester
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• Ciudad Rodrigo, battle of, 1812
• civil law
• civil list
• civil service
• civil wars, 1642–51
• Claim of Right, 1689
• clans
• Clapham sect
• Clapperton Hugh 1788–1827
• Clare Gilbert de
• Clare Gilbert de
• Clare Gilbert de
• Clare Richard de
• Clare Richard de
• Clarence, Albert Victor Christian Edward, duke of 1864–92
• Clarence, George, 1st duke of 1449–78
• Clarence, Thomas, 1st duke of 1388–1421
• Clarendon, Assize of
• Clarendon, constitutions of
• Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st earl of 1609–74
• Clarendon, Henry Hyde, 2nd earl of 1638–1709
• Clarendon, George Villiers, 4th earl of 1800–70
• Clarendon code
• Clarendon palace
• Clarkson Thomas 1760–1846
• class
• Classicianus.
• Classis Britannica
• Claudius.
• Clegg Nick (William Peter)
• Cleland William
• clerk register
• Cleveland
• Clifford, Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron 1630–73
• Clinton Sir Henry 1730–95
• Clitherow St Margaret 1556–86
• Clive Robert 1725–74
• Clodius Albinus.
• Clogher, diocese of (diocese of Clochar mac nDaimine).
• Clontarf, battle of, 1014
• cloth industry.
• club-men
• clubs
• Cluniacs
• Clwyd
• Cnut
• Coalbrookdale
• coal industry
• Cobbett William 1763–1835
• Cobden Richard 1804–65
• Cochrane, Thomas, 10th earl of Dundonald
• Cockburn Henry 1779–1854
• cock-fighting
• Codrington Sir Edward 1770–1851
• coercion bills,
• coffee-houses
• Coggan Donald 1909–2000
• Cogidubnus,
• coins and currency
• Coke Sir Edward 1552–1634
• Coke, Thomas William, 1st earl of Leicester 1754–1842
• Colchester
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• Cold War
• Colenso John 1814–83
• Coleridge Samuel Taylor 1772–1834
• Colet John 1467–1519
• College of Arms
• Collingwood, Cuthbert, 1st Baron 1750–1810
• Collins Michael 1890–1922
• Collins, (William) Wilkie
• Colonial Office
• Colquhoun Patrick 1745–1820
• Columba St
• Columbanus St
• Combination Acts, 1799–1800
• comics
• ‘commercial revolution’
• Committee of Articles (Lords of the Articles).
• Commius
• common law
• Common Market.
• Common Pleas, Court of
• Commons, House of
• Commonwealth
• Commonwealth of Nations
• Common Wealth Party
• Communist Party of Great Britain
• commutation
• companies, trading
• compositions of delinquency
• comprehension
• Compton Henry 1632–1713
• compurgation or law-wager
• computing and information technology
• Comyn John
• Comyn John
• Confederation of British Industry (CBI).
• Congested Districts Board
• Congregation, Lords of, 1557
• congregationalists
• Congress system
• Congreve William 1670–1729
• Connacht (Connaught),
• Connolly James 1868–1916
• Conrad Joseph 1857–1924
• conscription
• Conservative Party
• consistory courts
• constable
• Constable Archibald 1774–1827
• Constable John 1776–1837
• Constans
• Constantín, son of Fergus
• Constantine
• Constantine III
• Constantine I
• Constantine II
• Constantine III
• Constantius I
• constitution
• constitutional history
• construction industry
• Conventicles Act, 1664
• Convention of Estates, 1689
• Convention of royal burghs
• Convention Parliaments
• conversion of England.
• convocations of Canterbury and York
• Conway, treaty of.
• Conwy castle
• Cook James 1728–79
• Cooper Samuel 1609–72
• Co-operative movement
• Coote Sir Eyre 1726–83
• Copenhagen, battle of, 1801
• copyhold
• copyright
• Coram Thomas 1668–1751
• Corbeil, treaty of, 1326
• Corbridge
• Corfe castle
• Coritani
• Cork, diocese of (diocese of Corcach már Muman).
• Corn Laws
• Cornovii
• Cornwall
• Cornwall, duchy of
• Cornwallis, Charles, 1st Marquis Cornwallis 1738–1805
• coronations
• Coronel, battle of, 1914
• coroner
• Corporation Act, 1661
• corporations
• corresponding societies
• Corrichie, battle of, 1562
• Corrupt Practices Act, 1883
• Cort Henry 1740–1800
• Corunna, battle of, 1809
• Cosgrave, W. T. 1880–1965
• Cotman John Sell 1782–1842
• Cottenham, Charles Christopher Pepys, 1st earl of 1781–1851
• Cottington, Francis, 1st Baron Cottington
• cotton industry
• Council, Great.
• Council for Wales in the Marches
• Council of State, 1649–60
• Council of the North
• counties
• country houses
• County Councils Act, 1888
• county courts
• Courcy John de
• court
• court and country party
• Courtenay, Edward, 11th earl of Devon 1526–56
• Courtenay, Henry, 10th earl of Devon
• Courtenay William
• Court of Session
• courts leet
• courts martial
• covenanters
• Covent Garden
• Coventry
• Coventry, diocese of
• Coventry, Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron 1578–1640
• Coverdale Miles 1488–1568
• Cowes regatta
• Cowper, William, Ist Earl Cowper 1664–1724
• Crabbe George 1754–1832
• Craftsman, The: or, The Countryman's Journal
• Craig, James, 1st Viscount Craigavon 1871–1940
• Cranfield, Lionel, 1st earl of Middlesex 1575–1645
• Cranmer Thomas 1489–1556
• Crashaw Richard
• Cravant, battle of, 1423
• Crécy, battle of, 1346
• Crediton, diocese of
• cricket
• crime
• Crimean War, 1853–6
• criminal law
• Cripps Sir Stafford 1889–1952
• Crofters’ Act, 1886
• Croker John Wilson 1780–1857
• Cromarty, George Mackenzie, 1st earl of
• Crome John 1768–1821
• Crompton Samuel 1753–1827
• Cromwell Henry 1628–74
• Cromwell Oliver 1599–1658
• Cromwell Richard 1626–1712
• Cromwell Thomas
• Cropredy Bridge, battle of, 1644
• croquet
• Crotoy, battle of, 1347
• Crowley Sir Ambrose 1658–1713
• crown.
• Cruikshank George 1792–1878
• crusades
• Crystal Palace
• Cubitt Thomas 1788–1855
• Cuilén
• Cullen Paul 1803–78
• Culloden, battle of, 1746
• Cumberland
• Cumberland, Ernest Augustus, duke of 1771–1851
• Cumberland, William Augustus, 1st duke of 1721–65
• Cumbria
• Cum universi, 1192
• Cunedda
• Cunningham, Andrew, 1st Viscount Cunningham 1883–1963
• Cunobelinus
• curia regis.
• Curragh mutiny
• Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquis Curzon 1859–1925
• customs and excise
• custos rotulorum
• Cuthbert St
• Cuthred
• Cutty Sark
• cycling
• Cynegils
• Cynewulf
• Cyprus
• D
• Dafydd ap Gruffydd
• Dafydd ap Llywelyn
• Dáil Éireann
• Daily Telegraph
• Dalhousie, James Andrew Broun Ramsay, 1st Marquis and 10th Earl 1812–60
• Dalriada, kingdom of
• Dalrymple, James, 1st Viscount Stair
• Dalrymple, John, 1st earl of Stair
• Dalrymple, John, 2nd earl of Stair
• Dalton John 1766–1844
• dame schools
• Damnonii
• Dampier William 1652–1715
• Danby, Thomas Osborne, 1st earl of, marquis of Carmarthen, and duke of Leeds 1632–1712
• dance,
• Danegeld
• Danelaw
• Darby Abraham 1677–1717
• Darcy, Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron
• Dardanelles campaign.
• Darien venture
• ’Dark Ages’
• Darling Grace 1815–42
• Darnley, Henry Stewart, Lord 1545–67
• Dartmouth, George Legge, 1st Baron 1648–91
• Dartmouth, William Legge, 2nd earl of 1731–1801
• darts
• Darwin Charles 1809–82
• David I
• David II
• David St (St Dewi)
• Davidson Randall 1848–1930
• Davies, (Edward) Clement
• Davies Emily 1830–1921
• Davies Sir John 1569–1626
• Davies Richard
• Davis John
• Davitt Michael 1846–1906
• Davy Sir Humphry 1778–1829
• Days of Prayer
• D-Day
• deacon
• dean
• death duties
• Declaration of Independence, 1776
• Declaration of Rights, 1689
• Declarations of Indulgence
• Declaratory Act, 1766
• decolonization
• Decorated style.
• Dee John 1527–1608
• Deerhurst
• De facto Act, 1495
• Defence, Ministry of
• Defenders
• Defoe Daniel
• Degeangli
• Degsastan, battle of, 0603
• De heretico comburendo, 1401
• Deheubarth
• Deira, kingdom of
• deism
• Delius Frederick 1862–1934
• demesne
• Demetae
• democracy
• Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
• Denain, battle of, 1712
• Denbighshire
• Denman, Thomas, 1st Baron Denman 1779–1854
• Denmark, relations with
• Denning, Alfred, Lord 1899–1999
• dentistry, development of
• Derby
• Derby, diocese of
• Derby, Thomas Stanley, 1st earl of
• Derby, Edward Stanley, 14th earl of 1799–1869
• Derby, Edward Stanley, 15th earl of 1826–93
• Derby, James Stanley, 7th earl of 1607–51
• Derby Dilly
• Derbyshire
• Dermot MacMurrough
• Derry, diocese of
• deserted villages
• Despenser Henry
• Despenser, Hugh, 1st earl of Winchester 1261–1326
• Dettingen, battle of, 1743
• Deusdedit
• de Valera, Eamon 1882–1975
• devolution
• Devon
• Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th duke of, marquis of Hartington 1833–1908
• Devonshire, William Cavendish, 1st duke of 1641–1707
• Devonshire, William Cavendish, 4th duke of 1720–64
• Devoy John 1842–1928
• dialects
• Dialogus de Scaccario
• Diamond Jubilee, 1897
• Diamond Jubilee, 2012
• Diana, princess of Wales 1961–97
• Dickens, Charles John Huffam 1812–70
• Dictionary of National Biography
• Dieppe assault, 1942
• Digby, George, 2nd earl of Bristol 1612–77
• Diggers
• Dilke Sir Charles 1843–1911
• Dillon John 1851–1927
• diplomatic history
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• dispensing power
• Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st earl of Beaconsfield 1804–81
• Disruption
• dissent
• dissenting academies
• dissolution of the monasteries
• distraint of knighthood
• divine right of kings
• divorce
• Dobunni
• docks and ports
• Doctors’ Commons
• Dodington, George Bubb, 1st Baron Melcombe Regis 1691–1762
• Doe, John.
• Dogger Bank, battle of the, 1915
• Dollar, battle of
• Domesday Book
• domestic service
• domestic system
• Dominica
• Dominicans
• dominion status
• Donald I
• Donald II
• Donald III
• Donne John 1572–1631
• Dorchester (Dorset).
• Dorchester-on-Thames, diocese of
• Dorset
• Dorset, Henry Grey, 3rd marquis of, duke of Suffolk 1517–54
• Dorset, Thomas Sackville, 1st earl of
• Douglas Sir Archibald
• Douglas, Archibald Douglas, 3rd earl of
• Douglas, Archibald Douglas, 4th earl of [S], lord of Galloway and Annandale, duke of Touraine
• Douglas, Archibald Douglas, 5th earl of
• Douglas Gavin
• Douglas Sir James
• Douglas, James Douglas, 2nd earl of
• Douglas, James Douglas of Balvenie, 7th earl of
• Douglas, James Douglas, 9th earl of
• Douglas, William Douglas, 8th earl of
• Douglas cause
• Dover, treaty of, 1364
• Dover, treaty of, 1670
• Dover castle
• Dowding, Hugh, 1st Baron Dowding 1882–1970
• Dowland John
• Down
• Down, diocese of (diocese of Dún Lethglaisse).
• Downing Street
• Downs, battle of the, 1652
• Downs, battle of the, 1666
• Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 1859–1930
• Drake Sir Francis
• drama.
• dreadnought
• dress
• Drogheda
• druids
• Drumclog, battle of, 1679
• Drummond Thomas 1797–1840
• Drury Lane
• Dryden John 1631–1700
• Dub
• Dublin
• Dublin, archiepiscopal diocese of (archiepiscopal diocese of Áth Cliath).
• Dublin, kingdom of
• Dublin, treaty of, 1646
• Dublin castle
• Dudley Dud 1599–1684
• Dudley Edmund
• duelling
• Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan 1816–1903
• Dugdale Sir William 1605–86
• duke
• Dumfries and Galloway
• Dumnonia, kingdom of
• Dumnonii
• Dunbar, battle of, 1296
• Dunbar, battle of, 1650
• Dunbar William
• Dunblane, diocese of
• Duncan I
• Duncan II
• Duncan Adam 1731–1804
• Duncan Smith, (G.) Iain
• Dundalk, battle of, 1318
• Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville 1742–1811
• Dundee
• Dundee, John Graham, 1st Viscount
• Dunes, battle of the, 1658
• Dunfermline abbey
• Dungan Hill, battle of, 1647
• Dungeness, battle of, 1652
• Dunkeld, battle of, 1689
• Dunkeld, diocese of
• Dunkirk
• Dunlop John Boyd 1840–1921
• Dunnichen Moor, battle of.
• Dunning's motion
• Duns Scotus, John
• Dunstable John
• Dunstan St
• Dunwich, diocese of
• Dupplin Moor, battle of, 1332
• Durham
• Durham, city of
• Durham, diocese of
• Durham, John Lambton, 1st earl of 1792–1840
• Durham, treaties of
• Durham Report
• Durotriges
• Dussindale, battle of, 1549
• Dyfed
• Dyfed, kingdom of (kingdom of Demetia).
• Dyrham, battle of, 0577
• E
• Eadgyth
• Eadgyth,
• Eadwig
• Ealdgyth,
• ealdorman
• Ealdred
• Eardwulf
• earls
• Earls Barton
• Early English architecture.
• East Anglia, kingdom of
• Easter
• Eastern Association
• Eastern Question
• Easter Rising
• East India Company
• Eastland Company
• East Saxons, kingdom of.
• East Sussex.
• Ecclesiastical Commission, 1686
• ecclesiastical commissioners
• ecclesiastical courts
• ecclesiastical history
• Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 1851
• Ecgfrith
• economical reform
• economic history
• Eden, Anthony, 1st earl of Avon 1897–1977
• Eden, William, Lord Auckland
• Edgar
• Edgar
• Edgar the Atheling
• Edgecote, battle of, 1469
• Edgehill, battle of, 1642
• Edinburgh,
• Edinburgh, Philip, duke of
• Edinburgh, St Giles
• Edinburgh, treaty of, 1328
• Edinburgh, treaty of, 1474
• Edinburgh, treaty of, 1560
• Edinburgh castle
• Edinburgh Review
• Edington, battle of, 0878
• Edmund
• Edmund I
• Edmund II
• Edmund,
• Edred
• education.
• Education Acts
• Education Board (Ireland).
• Edward
• Edward
• Edward
• Edward I
• Edward II
• Edward III
• Edward IV
• Edward V
• Edward VI
• Edward VII
• Edward VIII
• Edward, duke of York
• Edward, prince of Wales
• Edward, prince of Wales 1453–71
• Edward, prince of Wales
• Edward the Atheling
• Edward Balliol
• Edward Bruce
• Edwin
• Egbert
• Egypt
• Eikon basilike or King's Book
• eisteddfod,
• El Alamein, battle of, 1942
• Eldon, John Scott, 1st earl of 1751–1838
• Eleanor of Aquitaine
• Eleanor of Castile
• Eleanor of Provence
• Eleanor crosses
• electricity industry
• ‘Eleven Years Tyranny’
• Elgar Edward 1857–1934
• Elgin marbles
• Eliot George 1819–80
• Eliot Sir John 1592–1632
• Eliot, T. S. 1888–1965
• Elizabeth I
• Elizabeth II
• Elizabeth of Bohemia 1596–1662
• Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
• Elizabeth Woodville
• Elizabeth of York
• Ellendun, battle of, 0825
• Elmet, kingdom of
• Elmham, diocese of
• Eltham palace
• Ely, diocese of
• Elyot Sir Thomas
• emigration
• Emma of Normandy
• Emmet Robert 1778–1803
• Empson Sir Richard
• enclosures
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Engagement, 1647
• Engels Friedrich 1820–95
• engineering industry
• England, kingdom of
• Englefield, battle of, 0871
• English Heritage,
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• Englishry
• entail
• Entente cordiale
• environment
• Eochaid
• Episcopal Church of Scotland
• episcopalianism
• Epstein Sir Jacob 1880–1959
• Erik Bloodaxe
• Ermengarde de Beaumont
• Ermine Street
• Erskine Thomas 1750–1823
• escheat
• espionage.
• Essex
• Essex, kingdom of
• Essex, Arthur Capel, 1st earl of 1631–83
• Essex, Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of 1566–1601
• Essex, Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of 1591–1646
• Essex, William Parr, earl of
• Étaples, treaty of, 1492
• Eton College
• Etty William 1787–1849
• European Communities Act, 1972
• European Economic Community
• European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
• European Union.
• Eustace Prince
• evangelicalism
• Evelyn John 1620–1706
• Evesham, battle of, 1265
• examinations
• Exchequer
• Excise crisis, 1733
• Exclusion crisis
• Exeter
• Exeter, diocese of
• Exeter, Thomas Beaufort, 1st duke of
• Exeter, Henry Holand, 2nd duke of 1430–75
• Exeter, John Holand, 1st duke of 1395–1447
• exploration
• extradition
• Eyre
• F
• Fabian Society
• Factory Acts
• factory system
• Fairfax, Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Baron
• Fairfax Sir Thomas 1612–71
• Fairford church
• fairies
• fairs,
• Falaise, treaty of, 1174
• Falkirk, battle of, 1298
• Falkirk, battle of, 1746
• Falkland, Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount
• Falkland palace
• Falklands, battle of the, 1914
• Falklands War
• family history
• famine
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• Faraday Michael 1791–1867
• Farington Joseph 1747–1821
• farming and estate management
• Fascists, British Union of.
• Fashoda crisis, 1898
• Faulkner Brian 1921–77
• Fawkes Guy (Guido)
• fealty
• Felix St
• feminist history
• Fenians.
• Fens, drainage of
• Ferguson Harry 1884–1960
• Fermanagh,
• Ferrar Robert
• Fethanleag, battle of
• feudal aids
• feudalism
• fidei defensor (Defender of the Faith).
• fief (or fee).
• Field John 1782–1837
• Fielden John 1784–1849
• Fielding Henry 1707–54
• Field of Cloth of Gold, 1520
• Fields Gracie 1898–1979
• field systems
• Fife
• Fifteen rising.
• Fifth Monarchy men
• Fiji
• film industry
• Financial Crisis
• financial revolution
• Finn Barr, St
• Finn mac Cumhaill (McCool)
• first fruits
• First World War
• Fishbourne
• Fisher Geoffrey 1887–1972
• Fisher John 1469–1535
• Fisher, Sir John, 1st Baron Fisher 1841–1920
• Fishguard invasion, 1797
• fishing.
• fishing industry
• Fitzgerald Lord Edward 1763–98
• Fitzgerald, Gerald, 8th earl of Kildare
• Fitzgerald, Gerald, 9th earl of Kildare
• Fitzgerald, Gerald, 14th earl of Desmond
• Fitzgerald James Fitzmaurice
• Fitzgerald, James, 15th earl of Desmond
• Fitzgerald, Thomas, 10th earl of Kildare
• FitzGibbon, John, 1st earl of Clare
• Fitzhamon Robert
• FitzNigel Richard
• Fitzosbern, William, earl of Hereford
• FitzRoy, Henry, duke of Richmond 1519–36
• Fitzwilliam, William Wentworth, 2nd Earl 1748–1833
• Five Knights’ case, 1627
• five members, 1642
• Five Mile Act, 1665
• fives
• Flambard Ranulf
• Flamsteed John 1646–1719
• Flaxman John 1755–1826
• Fleet prison
• Fleet Street
• Fleming Sir Alexander 1881–1955
• Fletcher Andrew 1655–1716
• Flight of the Earls, 1607
• Flinders Matthew 1774–1814
• Flintshire
• Flodden, battle of, 1513
• Foliot Gilbert
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• Fontenoy, battle of, 1745
• food and drink
• fools and jesters
• Foot Michael 1913–2010
• football (soccer).
• forced loans
• Foreign Office
• foreign policy
• forest laws
• forma regiminis,
• Formby George 1904–61
• Formigny, battle of, 1450
• Fornham St Genevieve, battle of, 1173
• Forster, E. M. 1879–1970
• Forster William Edward 1818–86
• Fortescue Sir John
• Fortriu
• Forty-five rising.
• Fosse Way
• Foster, John, 1st Baron Oriel 1740–1826
• Fotheringhay, treaty of, 1482
• Fountains abbey
• Fourth Party
• Fox Charles James 1749–1806
• Fox George 1624–91
• Fox Henry 1705–74
• Foxe John 1516–87
• Foxe Richard
• fox-hunting
• Fox's martyrs
• Fox-Talbot, W. H.
• Fragment on Government
• France, relations with
• franchise.
• Franciscans (or ‘friars minor’ or ‘grey friars’)
• Franco-Scottish alliance
• Franklin Benjamin 1706–90
• Franklin Sir John 1786–1847
• frankpledge
• Frazer Sir James 1854–1941
• Frederick Lewis, prince of Wales 1707–51
• Free Church of Scotland
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• free trade
• French Sir John 1852–1925
• Frere, Sir Henry Bartle Edward 1815–84
• friars
• friendly societies
• Friends of the People
• Frobisher Sir Martin
• Frontinus Sextus Iulius.
• Fry Elizabeth 1780–1845
• Fuentes de Onoro, battle of, 1811
• Fulford, battle of, 1066
• funerals
• furniture,
• Fursa St
• fyrd
• G
• Gabbard, battle of the, 1653
• Gaelic,
• Gaelic Athletic Association
• Gaelic League
• Gag Acts.
• Gainsborough Thomas 1727–88
• Gaitskell Hugh 1906–63
• Gallipoli/Dardanelles campaign, 1915–16
• Galsworthy John 1867–1933
• Gambia
• game laws
• Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand
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• gaol delivery
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• Gascoigne William
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• gavelkind
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• Gay John 1685–1732
• genealogy,
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• Ghana
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• gibbeting
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• Gilbertines
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• Gin Act, 1751
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• Girl Guides
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• Glamorgan, kingdom of
• Glamorgan, Mid, South, and West
• Glanvill Ranulf
• Glasgow,
• Glasgow cathedral
• Glastonbury,
• glebe
• Glencairn, William Cunningham, 9th earl of
• Glencoe massacre
• Glenfruin, battle of, 1603
• Glenlivet, battle of, 1594
• Glenshiel, battle of, 1719
• gliding
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• Gloucester
• Gloucester, diocese of
• Gloucester, Gilbert de Clare, 4th earl of
• Gloucester, Gilbert de Clare, 6th earl of 1243–95
• Gloucester, Gilbert de Clare, 7th earl of 1291–1314
• Gloucester, Humphrey, 1st duke of 1390–1447
• Gloucester, Richard de Clare, 5th earl of 1222–62
• Gloucester, statute of, 1278
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• Goderich, Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount 1782–1859
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• Godolphin, Sidney Godolphin, 1st earl of 1645–1712
• Godwin William 1756–1836
• Godwine, earl of Wessex
• Gold Coast.
• Golden Jubilee, 1887
• Goldsmith Oliver 1728–74
• golf
• Good Parliament
• Gordon Charles George 1833–85
• Gordon Lord George 1751–93
• Gordon riots, 1780
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• Gothic architecture
• Gothic Revival
• Gower John
• Gowrie, William Ruthven, 1st earl of
• Gowrie conspiracy, 1600
• Grace, W. G. 1848–1915
• Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd duke of 1735–1811
• Graham Sir James 1792–1861
• grammar schools
• Grampian
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• grand jury
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• Grand National Consolidated Trade Union
• Grand Remonstrance, 1641
• grand tour
• Grantham, Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron 1695–1770
• Granville, Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl 1815–91
• Grattan Henry 1746–1820
• Gravelines, battle of, 1558
• Gray, Patrick Gray, 6th Baron
• Gray Thomas 1716–71
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• Great Britain
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• great council and king's council
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• Green Thomas Hill 1836–82
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• Green Party
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• Greenwich palace
• Gregory Lady Augusta 1852–1932
• Grenada,
• Grenville George 1712–70
• Grenville Sir Richard 1542–91
• Grenville, William Wyndham, 1st Lord 1759–1834
• Gresham Thomas 1519–79
• Greville Charles 1794–1865
• Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl Grey 1764–1845
• Grey Sir Edward 1862–1933
• Grey, Ford Grey, 3rd Baron 1655–1701
• Grey Lady Jane 1537–54
• Grey, Leonard, 1st Viscount Grane
• greyhound racing
• Griffith Arthur 1871–1922
• Grimond Joseph (‘Jo’ Grimond)
• Grindal Edmund 1519–83
• Griqualand, East and West
• Grocyn William
• Grosmont
• Grosseteste Robert
• Grote George 1794–1871
• Grove Sir George 1820–1900
• Grub Street
• Gruffydd ap Cynan
• Gruffydd ap Llywelyn
• Gruffydd ap Rhys
• Guardian
• Guildford, diocese of
• Guilford courthouse, battle of, 1781
• guilds
• Guild Socialists
• Guinness Edward 1847–1927
• Gulf War
• Gulliver's Travels,
• Gundulf
• Gunpowder plot, 1605
• Gurkhas or Gorkhas
• Guthlac St
• Guthrum
• Guyana,
• Gwent
• Gwent, kingdom of
• Gwyn Nell 1650–87
• Gwynedd
• Gwynedd, kingdom of
• gypsies and tinkers
• H
• habeas corpus
• Habsburgs, relations with
• Haddington, Thomas Hamilton, 1st earl of
• Haddington, treaty of, 1548
• Hadrian.
• Hadrian IV
• Hadrian's Wall
• Hague William
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• Hailsham, Quintin Hogg, 2nd Baron 1907–2001
• Hakluyt Revd Richard
• Haldane, Richard Burdon, 1st Viscount Haldane 1856–1928
• Hale Sir Matthew 1609–76
• Halidon Hill, battle of, 1333
• Halifax, George Montagu Dunk, 2nd earl of 1716–71
• Halifax, Charles Montagu, 1st earl of 1661–1715
• Halifax, George Savile, 1st marquis of 1633–95
• Halifax, Edward Wood, 1st earl of 1881–1959
• Hall Edward
• Hall, Sir Edward Marshall 1858–1929
• Hallé, Sir Charles 1819–95
• Halley Edmond 1656–1742
• Halsbury, Hardinge Gifford, 1st earl of 1823–1921
• Hamilton, William Douglas, duke of
• Hamilton, James Hamilton, 1st duke of
• Hamilton, James Hamilton, 4th duke of
• Hamilton, William Hamilton, 2nd duke of
• Hamilton Emma 1765–1815
• Hamilton, Sir James, of Finnart
• Hamilton John
• Hamilton Sir Thomas
• Hampden John 1594–1643
• Hampden clubs
• Hampden Park
• Hampshire
• Hampton Court conference, 1604
• Hampton Court palace
• Handel George Frideric 1685–1759
• Handley Tommy 1892–1949
• Hanover
• Hansard Thomas Curson 1776–1833
• Hanseatic League
• Hanway Jonas 1712–86
• Harcourt, Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount 1661–1727
• Harcourt, Sir William Vernon 1827–1904
• Hardie James Keir 1856–1915
• Hardknott
• Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, 1st earl of 1690–1764
• Hardwick Hall
• Hardy Thomas 1840–1928
• Harfleur, siege of, 1415
• Hargreaves James 1720–78
• Harington Sir John 1560–1612
• Harland Edward James 1831–95
• Harlaw, battle of, 1411
• Harlech castle
• Harley, Robert, 1st earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer 1661–1724
• Harmsworth, Alfred, 1stViscount Northcliffe 1865–1922
• Harmsworth, Harold, 1st Viscount Rothermere 1868–1940
• Harold I
• Harold II (Harold Godwineson)
• Harold Sigurdsson
• Harrington James 1611–77
• Harrington, William Stanhope, 1st earl of
• Harris, Sir Arthur Travers 1892–1984
• Harris Howell 1714–73
• Harrison John 1693–1776
• Harrison Thomas 1606–60
• Harrowby, Dudley Ryder, 1st earl of 1762–1847
• Harrow School
• Harthacnut
• Harty Sir Hamilton 1879–1941
• harvesting
• Harvey William 1578–1657
• Haselrig Sir Arthur
• Hastenbeck, battle of, 1757
• Hastings, battle of, 1066
• Hastings, William Hastings, 1st Lord
• Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquis, and 4th Baron Moira 1754–1826
• Hastings Warren 1732–1818
• Hatfield, Council of, 0680
• Hatfield House
• Hatton Sir Christopher 1540–91
• Havelock Sir Henry 1795–1857
• ‘Hawarden Kite’
• Hawke Sir Edward 1710–81
• Hawkins Sir John 1532–95
• Hawksmoor Nicholas
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• Hazlitt William 1778–1830
• Heads of the Proposals, 1647
• health
• Healy Timothy 1855–1931
• Heath Sir Edward 1916–2005
• Heathfield, battle of,
• Heathfield, George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron 1717–90
• Heavenfield, battle of, 0634
• Hebrides.
• Hedgeley Moor, battle of, 1464
• Heligoland
• Heligoland Bight, battle of, 1914
• Henderson Arthur 1863–1935
• Hengist and Horsa.
• Henley Royal Regatta
• Henrietta Maria
• Henry I
• Henry II
• Henry III
• Henry IV
• Henry V
• Henry VI
• Henry VII
• Henry VIII
• Henry, prince of Wales 1594–1612
• Henry, the Young King
• Henry of Blois
• Henry of Grosmont
• Henry Stewart
• Henryson Robert
• Hepplewhite George
• heptarchy
• heraldry
• Herbert Arthur 1647–1716
• Herbert, Edward, 1st Baron Herbert 1583–1648
• Herbert George 1593–1633
• Herbert, Sidney, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea 1810–61
• Herbert, William, 3rd earl of Pembroke 1580–1630
• Hereford, diocese of
• Hereford and Worcester
• Herefordshire
• heresy
• Hereward
• heriot
• Heriot George 1563–1624
• heritable jurisdictions
• Herrick Robert 1591–1674
• Herrings, battle of the, 1429
• Herschel John 1792–1871
• Herschel William 1738–1822
• Herstmonceux castle
• Hertford, Synod of, 0672
• Hertfordshire,
• Hervey, John, Lord 1696–1743
• Heseltine Michael
• Hexham, battle of, 1464
• Hexham, diocese of
• Hexham abbey
• hides
• high church
• High Commission, Court of
• high kings of Ireland.
• Highland
• Highland clearances
• Highland games
• Highland Land League
• highwaymen
• Hilda St 614–80
• Hill Octavia 1838–1912
• Hill, Rowland, 1st Viscount Hill 1772–1842
• Hill Sir Rowland 1795–1879
• Hillary Sir Edmund 1919–2008
• Hilliard Nicholas 1547–1619
• Hingston Down, battle of, 0838
• historical novels
• HMI (Her Majesty's Inspectors)
• Hoadly Benjamin 1676–1761
• Hoare, Samuel, 1st Viscount Templewood 1880–1959
• Hobbes Thomas 1588–1679
• Hobson John Atkinson 1858–1940
• hockey
• Hogarth William 1697–1764
• Hogg James 1772–1835
• Hogue, La, battle of.
• Holbein Hans
• holidays
• Holinshed Raphael
• Holkham Hall
• Holland, Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron 1773–1840
• Holland, relations with
• Holles Denzil 1599–1680
• Holst Gustav 1874–1934
• Holt John 1642–1710
• ‘Holy Alliance’
• Holyoake George Jacob 1817–1906
• Holyrood
• homage
• Home, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 14th earl of
• Home John 1722–1808
• Home Guard
• Home Office
• Home Rule.
• Homildon Hill, battle of, 1402
• Hong Kong
• Honorius
• Honours of Scotland
• honours system
• Hood Alexander 1726–1814
• Hood Samuel 1724–1816
• Hooke Robert 1635–1703
• Hooker Richard 1554–1600
• hooliganism
• Hooper John
• Hopton Sir Ralph 1596–1652
• Horner Francis 1778–1817
• Horne Tooke, John 1736–1812
• horse-racing
• hosiery trade
• Hospitallers
• hospitals
• hotels
• Hotspur
• housecarls
• household
• households
• housing
• Housman, A. E. 1859–1936
• Howard, Charles, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham and 1st earl of Nottingham
• Howard Charles
• Howard Ebenezer 1850–1928
• Howard, Henry, 1st earl of Northampton 1540–1614
• Howard John 1726–90
• Howard Michael
• Howard, Thomas, 1st Baron Howard de Walden and earl of Suffolk 1561–1626
• Howard, William, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham
• Howe Sir Geoffrey
• Howe Richard 1726–99
• Howe William 1729–1814
• Hudibras
• Hudson George 1800–71
• Hudson Henry
• Hudson's Bay Company
• hue and cry
• Hugh of Lincoln, St 1140–1200
• Hugh de Puisset
• Huguenots,
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• ‘humanism’
• humanitarians
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• Hume David 1711–76
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• hundreds
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• Hunsdon, Henry Carey, 1st Baron 1526–96
• Hunt Henry 1773–1835
• Hunt William Holman 1827–1910
• Hunter William (1718–83) and John (1728–93).
• hunting.
• Huntingdon, earldom of
• Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, 3rd earl of 1536–95
• Huntingdon Lady 1707–91
• Huntingdonshire
• Huntly, George Gordon, 4th earl of
• Huntly, George Gordon, 1st marquis of
• Huntly, George Gordon, 2nd marquis of
• Huntsman Benjamin 1704–76
• Hurd Douglas
• Huskisson William 1770–1830
• Hutcheson Francis 1694–1746
• Hutchinson Lucy
• Hutton James 1726–97
• Huxley, T. H. 1825–95
• Hwicce, kingdom of the
• Hyde Anne 1637–71
• Hyde Park riots, 1866
• hydrogen bomb.
• hymns
• Hyndman Henry Mayers 1842–1921
• Hywel
• I
• Iceni
• ice-skating
• Icknield Way
• iconoclasm
• Ida
• Idle, River, battle of the.
• immigration
• impeachment
• imperial conferences
• imperialism
• imperial preference
• Imphal, battle of, 1944
• impositions
• impropriations
• Inchiquin, Murrough O'Brien, 1st earl of
• income tax
• Indemnity and Oblivion, Act of, 1660
• Independent Irish Party
• Independent Labour Party (ILP).
• India, or Hindustan,
• India Bill, 1783
• Indian mutiny
• Indulf
• indulgences
• industrial archaeology,
• Industrial Relations Act, 1971
• industrial revolution
• Ine
• infangthief (in-caught-thief) and and outfangthief
• Inkerman, battle of, 1854
• inns
• Inns of Court
• inoculation.
• Instrument of Government
• insurance
• intercursus magnus and intercursus malus
• interdict
• Interregnum
• ‘Intolerable Acts’, 1774
• inventories
• Invergordon mutiny
• Inverlochy, battle of, 1645
• Inverness, treaty of, 1312
• Inverurie, battle of, 1308
• Investiture contest
• Invincibles
• Iona
• Ipswich
• Iraq,
• Iraq war
• Ireland, Board of National Education
• Ireland, Government of, Act, 1920–1
• Ireland, high kings of
• Ireland, lordship of
• Ireland Act, 1949
• Ireton Henry 1611–51
• Irish Citizen Army
• Irish Constabulary/Royal Irish Constabulary
• Irish famine.
• Irish Free State, 1922–48
• Irish Free State/Republic, relations with
• Irish Home Rule
• Irish Land League, 1879–82
• Irish National Party (Irish Parliamentary Party).
• Irish rebellions,
• Irish rebellion, 1798
• Irish Republican Army (IRA).
• Irish Republican Brotherhood
• Irish Volunteers.
• Ironbridge (Shropshire).
• iron industry
• Ironsides
• Irvine agreement, 1297
• Irving Edward 1792–1834
• Irving Henry 1838–1905
• Isabella of Angoulême
• Isabella of France
• Isabella of France
• Isabella of Gloucester
• Isandhlwana
• Isle of Man
• Isle of Wight
• Isles, kingdom of the
• Islip Simon
• Italy, relations with
• Ithamar
• J
• Jacobins
• Jacobite risings
• Jacobitism
• Jamaica,
• James I
• James II
• James III
• James IV
• James V
• James VI
• James VII
• Jameson Raid, 1895
• Jane Seymour
• Japan, relations with
• Jarrow,
• Jeffrey, Francis, Lord Jeffrey
• Jeffreys George 1648–89
• Jehovah's witnesses
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• Jenkins Roy 1920–2003
• Jenkins's Ear, War of
• Jenkinson Anthony
• Jenner Edward 1749–1823
• Jervis, John, 1st earl of St Vincent 1735–1823
• Jesuits
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• Jewel John 1522–71
• Jews
• Jex-Blake, Sophia 1840–1912
• jingoism
• Jinnah Mohammed Ali 1876–1948
• Joan (Joanna)
• Joan Princess
• Joan Beaufort
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• Joan of Navarre
• Joanna of the Tower
• John
• John Augustus Edwin 1878–1961
• John, lord of the Isles
• John Balliol
• John Bull.
• John of Gaunt, 1st duke of Lancaster 1340–99
• John of Salisbury
• Johnson Samuel 1709–84
• Jones Inigo 1573–1652
• Jones Sir William 1746–94
• Jonson Ben 1572–1637
• Jordan,
• Jowett Benjamin 1817–93
• Joyce James 1882–1941
• Judicature Acts, 1873–5
• Julian of Norwich
• Junius
• Junto
• jury system
• justice Eyre.
• justices of the peace
• justiciar
• Justiciary Court
• Justus St
• Jutes
• Jutland, battle of, 1916
• Juxon William 1582–1663
• K
• Kames, Henry Home, Lord 1696–1782
• Kay John
• Kay-Shuttleworth, Sir James Phillips 1804–77
• Kean Edmund 1787–1833
• Keats John 1795–1821
• Keble John 1792–1866
• Keith James 1696–1758
• Kells, Book of
• Kelvin, William Thomson, 1st Baron 1824–1907
• Kemble Charles 1775–1854
• Kemp John
• Kempe Margery
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• Kenilworth, dictum of, 1266
• Kenilworth castle
• Kennedy Charles
• Kennedy James
• Kenneth II
• Kenneth III
• Kenneth I MacAlpin
• Kensington palace
• Kent
• Kent, kingdom of
• Kent William 1685–1748
• Kentish Knock, battle of, 1652
• Kenwood,
• Kenya
• Kenyatta Jomo
• Keppel, Arnold Joost van, 1st earl of Albemarle
• Kett Robert
• Kew Gardens
• Keynes John Maynard 1883–1946
• Keys, House of
• Khartoum
• Kildare Place Society
• Kilkenny, Confederation of, 1642
• Kilkenny, convention of, 1341
• Kilkenny, statutes of, 1366
• Killiecrankie, battle of, 1689
• Kilmainham ‘treaty’, 1882
• Kilmore, diocese of (diocese of Cell Mór).
• Kilsyth, battle of, 1645
• Kilvert Robert Francis 1840–79
• Kilwardby Robert
• Kimberley, John Wodehouse, 1st earl of 1826–1902
• Kimberley, siege of
• ‘Kingis Quair’
• King's Bench, Court of
• King's Bench prison
• King's College chapel
• king's counsel.
• king's evil, touching for.
• king's friends
• King's Inns
• Kingsley Charles 1819–75
• King's Lynn,
• Kingston, treaty of, 1217
• Kingston upon Hull
• Kinnock, Neil G.
• Kinsale, battle of, 1601
• Kipling Rudyard 1865–1936
• Kiribati,
• Kirkcaldy Sir William
• Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl 1850–1916
• Kit Kat Club.
• Kloster-Zeven, convention of, 1757
• Kneller Sir Godfrey
• knights
• Knollys Sir Francis 1512–96
• Knox John
• Korean War, 1950–3
• Kruger Paul 1825–1904
• L
• labour aristocracy
• Labourers, statute of, 1351
• labour history
• Labour Party
• labour services
• Ladysmith
• Lagos, battle of, 1693
• Lagos, battle of, 1759
• La Hogue, battle of, 1692
• lairds
• laissez-faire.
• Lamb Charles 1775–1834
• Lambert John 1619–83
• Lambeth, treaty of, 1217
• Lambeth palace
• Lancashire
• Lancaster, duchy of
• Lancaster Joseph 1778–1838
• Lancastrians
• Land Acts
• Landen, battle of.
• Lander Richard Lemon 1804–34
• landscape gardening
• Landseer Sir Edwin 1802–73
• land tax
• land tenure
• Lanfranc
• Lang Cosmo Gordon 1864–1945
• Langham Simon
• Langland William
• Langport, battle of, 1645
• Langside, battle of, 1568
• Langton Stephen
• Lansbury George 1859–1940
• Lansdowne, battle of, 1643
• Lansdowne, William Petty, marquis of
• Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd marquis of 1780–1863
• Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th marquis of 1845–1927
• Largs, battle of, 1263
• Larkin James 1876–1947
• Larkin Philip 1922–85
• Latimer Hugh
• Latin America, relations with
• latitudinarianism
• Laud William 1573–1645
• Laudabiliter
• Lauder Sir Harry 1870–1950
• Lauderdale, John Maitland, 2nd earl of
• Lauffeld, battle of, 1747
• Laurentius (Lawrence) (d. 619).
• Lausanne conference
• Law Andrew Bonar 1858–1923
• law, development of
• Law, Edward, 1st Baron Ellenborough 1750–1818
• Law, Edward, 1st earl of Ellenborough 1790–1871
• Law John 1671–1729
• Law William 1686–1761
• lawn tennis
• Lawrence, D. H. 1885–1930
• Lawrence Sir Henry 1806–57
• Lawrence, John Laird Mair, 1st Baron 1811–79
• Lawrence Sir Thomas 1769–1830
• Lawrence, T. E.
• Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The
• lead-mining
• League of Armed Neutrality
• League of Nations
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• Lear Edward 1812–88
• Leeds
• Leeds, Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th duke of 1751–99
• Leeds castle,
• Leeward Islands
• Legh Rowland
• legions, Roman.
• Le Goulet, peace of, 1200
• Leicester
• Leicester, diocese of
• Leicester, Robert Dudley, 1st earl of
• Leicester House opposition
• Leicestershire
• Leighton Frederic 1830–96
• Leinster,
• leisure
• Leland John
• Lely Peter 1618–80
• Lennox, Esmé Stewart, 1st duke of
• Lennox, Margaret Stewart, countess of 1515–78
• Lennox, Matthew Stewart, 13th earl of
• Leno Dan 1860–1904
• Leofric, earl of Mercia
• Leslie Alexander
• Leslie David
• Lesotho, kingdom of
• Levant Company
• Levellers
• Lever, William Hesketh, 1st Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles 1851–1925
• Leviathan
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• Lewes, mise of
• Lewis, C. S. 1898–1963
• Lexington, battle of, 1775
• Lhuyd Edward 1660–1709
• Libel Act, 1792
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• Licensing Act, 1662
• Lichfield, diocese of
• Lichfield House compact
• Lilburne John 1615–57
• ‘Lillibullero’,
• Limerick, diocese of (diocese of Luimnech).
• Limerick, treaty of, 1691
• Limited Liability Act
• Linacre Thomas
• Lincoln
• Lincoln, battle of, 1141
• Lincoln, battle of, 1217
• Lincoln, diocese of
• Lincoln, John de la Pole, 1st earl of
• Lincoln judgment, 1890
• Lincolnshire
• Lindemann, Frederick, 1st Viscount Cherwell 1886–1957
• Lindisfarne
• Lindisfarne, diocese of
• Lindisfarne Gospels,
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• Lindsey, diocese of
• Lindsey, kingdom of
• linen
• Linlithgow, Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquis 1887–1952
• Linlithgow palace
• Lister Joseph 1827–1912
• literacy,
• Liverpool,
• Liverpool, Charles Jenkinson, 1st earl of 1729–1808
• Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd earl of 1770–1828
• Liverpool, diocese of
• livery and maintenance.
• livery companies
• Livingstone David 1813–73
• Llandaff, diocese of
• Lloyd Marie 1870–1922
• Lloyd Selwyn 1904–78
• Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George 1863–1945
• Lloyd's of London
• Llywelyn ap Gruffydd
• Llywelyn ab Iorwerth
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• local history
• Locarno, treaties of, 1925
• Locke John 1632–1704
• Lockhart Sir George
• lollardy
• London
• London, diocese of
• London, fire of, 1666
• London, government and politics
• London, growth of
• London, treaty of, 1357
• London, treaty of, 1358
• London, treaty of, 1423
• London, treaty of, 1474
• London, treaty of, 1518
• London, treaty of, 1604
• London, treaty of, 1827
• London, treaty of, 1831
• London, treaty of, 1840
• London, treaty of, 1871
• London bridge,
• Londonderry
• Londonderry, siege of, 1689
• London Gazette
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• London University
• Long Walter 1854–1924
• Longchamp William
• Longitude Act,
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• Long Parliament, 1640–60
• lord advocate
• lord chamberlain.
• lord chancellor
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• lord chief justice
• lord high steward
• lord justice clerk
• lord justice-general
• lord keeper
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• lord privy seal
• Lords, House of
• Lord's cricket ground,
• lords of Articles.
• lords-lieutenant
• Losecoat Field, battle of, 1470
• Losinga Herbert de
• Lostwithiel campaign, 1644
• Lothian
• Loudoun, John Campbell, 1st earl of
• Loudoun Hill, battle of, 1307
• Louisbourg
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• Lovett William 1800–77
• low church
• Lowe Robert 1811–92
• Lowestoft, battle of, 1665
• Lowry Laurence Stephen 1887–1976
• Lucan, George Charles Bingham, 3rd earl of 1800–88
• Lucknow or Luknau
• Lucy Richard de
• Luddites
• Ludford Bridge, battle of, 1459
• Ludlow Edmund
• Ludlow castle
• Lugard, Sir Frederick, Baron Lugard 1858–1945
• Lulach
• Lullingstone
• Lumphanan, battle of, 1057
• lunacy
• lutheranism
• Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer 1869–1944
• Lydgate John
• Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron 1772–1863
• Lynedoch, Thomas Graham, 1st Baron 1748–1843
• Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl 1831–91
• M
• Maastricht, treaty of
• Mabinogi (Mabinogion).
• McAdam John Loudoun 1756–1836
• McGuinness Martin
• Macartney, George, 1st Earl Macartney 1737–1806
• Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron 1800–59
• Macbeth
• McCarthy Justin 1830–1912
• Macclesfield, Thomas Parker, 1st earl of 1667–1732
• McCormack John 1884–1945
• MacCormick John MacDonald 1904–61
• MacDonald Flora 1722–90
• MacDonald James Ramsay 1866–1937
• MacDonald, John, 4th lord of the Isles 1434–1503
• Macintosh Charles 1766–1843
• Mackenzie Sir Alexander
• Mackenzie Sir George 1636–91
• Mackenzie Sir George
• Mackenzie Henry 1745–1831
• Mackenzie William Lyon 1795–1861
• Mackintosh Charles Rennie 1868–1928
• Mackintosh Sir James 1765–1832
• Maclise Daniel 1806–70
• Macmillan Harold 1894–1986
• MacPherson James 1738–93
• Macready William 1793–1873
• McTaggart William 1835–1910
• Madeleine of France
• Madog ab Owain Gwynedd
• Madog ap Maredudd
• Madras (Chennai)
• madrigals
• Mael Snechta
• Mafeking
• Magersfontein, battle of, 1899
• magic
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• Magnus Maximus
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• Maiden castle
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• Main plot, 1603
• Maitland Frederick William 1850–1906
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• Maitland Sir William
• Major John
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• Majuba Hill, battle of, 1881
• Malachy St
• Malawi
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• Malmesbury abbey
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• Malta
• Malthus Thomas Robert 1766–1834
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• Manchester
• Manchester, diocese of
• Manchester, Edward Montagu, 2nd earl of 1602–71
• Manchester, Greater
• Manchester martyrs, 1867
• Manchester School
• mandates
• Mann Tom 1856–1941
• Manners, Society for the Reformation of
• Manning Henry Edward 1808–92
• manor houses
• manorial courts
• manorial system
• Mansel John
• Mansfield, William Murray, 1st earl of 1705–93
• Maori wars, (New Zealand) 1844–72.
• maps
• Mar, John Erskine, earl of
• Mar, John Erskine, 11th earl of
• Mar, John Stewart, earl of
• marches of Scotland
• marches of Wales.
• Marchmont, Patrick Hume, 1st earl of
• Marconi scandal
• Margaret
• Margaret St
• Margaret of Anjou
• Margaret of Burgundy
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• Margaret of England
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• market gardening
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• Marks Simon 1888–1964
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• Marlborough, statute of, 1267
• Marlowe Christopher 1564–93
• Marprelate tracts
• marquis
• marriage,
• Marriage Act, 1753
• Married Women's Property Acts
• marshal
• Marshal William
• Marshall Alfred 1842–1924
• Marshalsea prison,
• Marston Moor, battle of, 1644
• Martello towers.
• Marten Henry 1602–80
• martial law
• Marvell Andrew 1621–78
• Marx Karl 1818–83
• Mary
• Mary I
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• Mary Bohun
• Mary of Gueldres
• Mary of Guise
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• Mary Tudor
• Marylebone Cricket Club
• Mary Rose
• Maserfield, battle of, 0642
• masques
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• mass media
• master of the king's music (master of the queen's music).
• master of the rolls
• Matapan, battle of, 1941
• Mathew Theobald 1790–1856
• Matilda
• Matilda
• Matilda (Maud) (d. 1131),
• Matilda Empress (Empress Maud) (1102–67).
• Matilda of Boulogne
• Matthew Paris
• Matthews Sir Stanley 1915–2000
• Mauchte St
• Mau Mau rebellion
• Maurice Frederick Denison 1805–72
• Mauritius
• Maxton James 1885–1946
• Maxwell James Clerk 1831–79
• Mayflower
• Maynard Sir John 1604–90
• Mayne Cuthbert
• Maynooth seminary
• mayors
• maypoles
• Meath, diocese of (diocese of Mide).
• Meath, kingdom of
• mechanics’ institutes
• medicine, development of
• Medina del Campo, treaty of, 1489
• Medway, battle of
• Medway, Dutch attack in the, 1667
• Melba Nellie 1859–1931
• Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount 1779–1848
• Mellitus.
• Melrose abbey
• Melun, treaty of, 1593
• Melville Andrew 1545–1622
• Melville, George Melville, 1st earl of
• mercantilism
• merchant navy
• Merchants, statute of, 1285
• Merchant Venturers
• Mercia, kingdom of
• ‘Merciless’ Parliament, 1388
• Merionethshire
• Merit, Order of
• Merlin
• Merseyside
• Merton, statute of, 1236
• Merton Walter de
• Mesopotamian campaign, 1914–18
• Messiah,
• Metcalf John 1717–1810
• methodism
• Methuen treaty, 1703
• Methven, battle of, 1306
• Middle Angles, kingdom of
• middle class
• Middlesex
• Middleton, Charles Middleton, 2nd earl of
• Middleton, John Middleton, 1st earl of
• Midlothian campaign, 1879–80
• Miliband Ed
• military history
• militia
• Mill James 1773–1836
• Mill John Stuart 1806–73
• Millais John Everett 1829–96
• Millar John 1735–1801
• millenarianism
• millenary petition, 1603
• Milner Alfred 1854–1925
• Milton John 1608–74
• Minden, battle of, 1759
• Mines Act, 1842
• Minorca
• minstrelsy
• Minto, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl 1751–1814
• Minto, Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl 1845–1914
• missionary activity
• Mitchel John 1815–75
• ‘Model’ Parliament
• Molyneaux James 1920–2015
• monarchy
• monasteries,
• Monck, George, 1st duke of Albemarle 1608–70
• Mond, Alfred, 1st Baron Melchett 1868–1930
• Monkwearmouth,
• Monmouth, diocese of
• Monmouth, James Scott, 1st duke of 1649–85
• Monmouth rising
• Monmouthshire
• monopolies
• Monro Alexander 1697–1767
• Montagu–Chelmsford Report
• Montfort III, Simon de
• Montfort IV, Simon de, earl of Leicester
• Montgomery Bernard 1887–1976
• Montgomery, treaty of, 1267
• Montgomeryshire
• Montrose, James Graham, 1st marquis of
• Montserrat
• Moore Henry 1898–1986
• Moore Sir John 1761–1809
• Moray, kingdom of
• Moray, Thomas Randolph, 1st earl of
• Moray, Alexander Stewart, 5th earl of
• Moray, James Stewart, 1st earl of
• Moray, James Stewart, 2nd earl of
• Moray Sir Robert
• Morcar, earl of Northumbria
• More Hannah 1745–1833
• More Sir Thomas 1478–1535
• Morgan Sir Henry
• Morgan William
• Morgannwg, kingdom of
• Morley John 1838–1923
• mormaers
• Mormons,
• Morris William 1834–96
• Morrison Herbert 1888–1965
• mortality, bills of
• Mortimer, Edmund, 3rd earl of March 1352–81
• Mortimer, Edmund, 5th earl of March and Ulster 1391–1425
• Mortimer, Roger, 6th Baron Wigmore
• Mortimer, Roger, 1st earl of March
• Mortimer, Roger, 4th earl of March and Ulster 1374–98
• Mortimer's Cross, battle of, 1461
• Mortmain, statute of, 1279
• Morton, James Douglas, 1st earl of
• Morton, James Douglas, 4th earl of
• Morton John
• Morton, William Douglas, 6th earl of
• mortuary
• Mosley Sir Oswald 1896–1980
• Mothers’ Union
• motor-cycle racing
• motor industry
• motor racing
• motorways
• Mount Badon, battle of
• Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900–79
• Mountjoy, Charles Blount, 8th Baron
• Mozambique
• Mugabe Robert
• Muggletonians, or ‘believers in the third commission’,
• Munich agreement
• Municipal Corporations Act, 1835
• Munster
• Murdock William 1754–1839
• Murphy Father John
• Murray Andrew
• Murray Sir Andrew 1298–1338
• Murray Lord George 1694–1760
• Murray James
• Muscovy Company.
• museums
• music, development of
• music-halls
• Mutiny Act
• Myddleton Sir Hugh
• Mynydd Carn, battle of, 1081
• mystery plays
• Myton, battle of, 1319
• N
• nabobs,
• Najerá, battle of, 1367
• Namibia
• Nanking, treaty of, 1842
• Nantwich, battle of, 1644
• Napier, Sir Charles James 1782–1853
• Napier John 1550–1617
• Napier, Robert, 1st Baron Napier 1810–90
• Naseby, battle of, 1645
• Nash John 1752–1835
• Nash Paul 1889–1946
• Nash Richard
• Natal
• national anthem
• national debt
• National Front
• national galleries
• National Government
• National Health Service
• national hunt.
• National Insurance
• nationalism
• nationalization
• national parks
• national portrait galleries
• National Schools Society
• National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
• National Theatre
• National Trust
• NATO
• Nauru
• naval history
• Navarino, battle of, 1827
• Navarrete, battle of.
• Navigation Acts
• navy
• Nechtansmere, battle of, 0685
• Neerwinden, battle of, 1693
• Nehru Jawaharlal 1889–1964
• Nelson Horatio 1758–1805
• Nennius.
• neo-classical architecture
• Nepal,
• netball
• Neville's Cross, battle of, 1346
• New Brunswick (Canada)
• Newburn, battle of, 1640
• Newbury, battle of, 1643
• Newbury, battle of, 1644
• Newcastle, William Cavendish, 1st duke of 1593–1676
• Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of 1693–1768
• Newcastle Programme, 1891
• Newcastle propositions, 1646
• Newcastle upon Tyne
• Newcastle upon Tyne, diocese of
• Newcomen Thomas 1663–1729
• New Delhi
• New England
• Newfoundland
• Newgate prison
• New Guinea.
• New Hebrides.
• New Lanark (South Lanarkshire),
• Newman John Henry 1801–90
• Newmarket
• New Model Army
• New Orleans, battle of, 1815
• Newport, treaty of, 1648
• ‘Newport rising’, 1839
• New River
• New Ross, battle of, 1798
• New South Wales,
• newspapers
• Newton Sir Isaac 1642–1727
• Newtown Butler, battle of, 1689
• new towns.
• New Zealand
• Nigeria
• Nightingale Florence 1820–1910
• Nijmegen, treaties of, 1678–9
• Nile, battle of the, 1798
• Nineteen Propositions
• Nine Years War, 1689–97
• Ninian St,
• nisi prius
• Nkomo Joshua 1917–1999
• Nkrumah Kwame 1909–72
• nobility.
• Nollekens Joseph 1737–1823
• Nominated Parliament.
• nonconformists.
• non-jurors
• non-residence
• non-resistance
• Nonsuch, treaty of, 1585
• Nonsuch palace
• Nootka Sound crisis, 1790–1
• Nore naval mutiny, 1797
• Norfolk
• Norfolk, Roger Bigod, 4th earl of
• Norfolk, Roger Bigod, 5th earl of
• Norfolk, Charles Howard, 11th duke of 1746–1815
• Norfolk, John Howard, 1st duke of
• Norfolk, Thomas Howard, 2nd duke of 1443–1524
• Norfolk, Thomas Howard, 3rd duke of 1473–1554
• Norfolk, Thomas Howard, 4th duke of 1538–72
• Norfolk, John Mowbray, 3rd duke of 1415–61
• Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of 1366–99
• Norham, treaty of, 1209
• Norham adjudication, 1291–2
• Norman architecture
• Norman Conquest
• Normandy, duchy of
• ‘Norman Yoke’
• North, Frederick, Lord, 2nd earl of Guilford 1732–92
• Northampton, Assize of, 1176
• Northampton, battle of, 1264
• Northampton, battle of, 1460
• Northampton, treaty of, 1328
• Northamptonshire
• North Briton
• Northbrook, Thomas George Baring, 1st earl of 1826–1904
• Northcliffe Viscount
• Northcote, Sir Stafford, 8th baronet, 1st earl of Iddesleigh 1818–87
• northern earls, rising of the, 1569
• Northern Ireland
• Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP).
• Northern Rhodesia.
• North Foreland, battle of, 1666
• Northumberland
• Northumberland, Henry, earl of
• Northumberland, John Dudley, 1st duke of
• Northumberland, John Neville, 1st earl of
• Northumberland, Henry Percy, 1st earl of 1341–1408
• Northumberland, Henry Percy, 3rd earl of 1421–61
• Northumberland, Henry Percy, 4th earl of
• Northumberland, Henry Percy, 8th earl of
• Northumberland, Henry Percy, 9th earl of 1564–1632
• Northumberland, Thomas Percy, 7th earl of 1528–72
• Northumbria, kingdom of
• North Yorkshire.
• Norton Caroline 1808–77
• Norwich
• Norwich, diocese of
• Norwich Crusade, 1383
• Nottingham
• Nottingham, Daniel Finch, 2nd earl of 1647–1730
• Nottingham, Heneage Finch, 1st earl of 1621–82
• Nottingham, Thomas Mowbray, 2nd earl of 1385–1405
• Nottinghamshire
• Nova Scotia
• nuclear energy
• Nuffield, William Morris, 1st Viscount 1877–1963
• nunneries
• nursery rhymes
• nursing
• Nyasaland.
• O
• Oakboys
• Oastler Richard 1789–1861
• Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace 1880–1912
• Oates Titus 1649–1705
• oaths
• O'Brien, James (Bronterre)
• O'Brien, Murrough
• O'Brien, William 1852–1928
• O'Brien, William Smith 1803–64
• O'Casey, Sean 1880–1964
• Occasional Conformity Act, 1791
• Ochakov crisis, 1791
• O'Connell, Daniel 1775–1847
• O'Connor, Arthur 1763–1852
• O'Connor, Feargus 1794–1855
• O'Connor, Rory (Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair) (d. 1198),
• Octavians
• Octennial Act, 1768
• October Club
• Oda
• Odo of Bayeux
• O'Donnell, Hugh Roe
• O'Donnell, Rory, 1st earl of Tyrconnel
• Offa
• Official Secrets Act, 1911
• oil.
• Olaf Guthfrithsson
• Olaf Sihtricsson
• old-age pensions
• Old Bailey
• Old Sarum
• ‘Oliver the Spy’
• Olivier Sir Laurence 1907–89
• Olympics in Britain
• Omdurman
• O'Neill, Con, 1st earl of Tyrone
• O'Neill, Daniel 1612–64
• O'Neill, Hugh, 3rd earl of Tyrone
• O'Neill, Owen Roe
• O'Neill, Sir Phelim
• O'Neill, Shane
• O'Neill, Terence, Lord O'Neill of the Maine 1914–90
• On Liberty
• opera
• Opium War.
• Oporto, battle of, 1809
• opposition
• Orange Free State
• Orange order
• Ordainers
• Orderic Vitalis
• orders in council
• Ordnance Survey
• Ordovices
• Oregon treaty, 1846
• Orford, Edward Russell, 1st earl of 1652–1727
• Origin of Species, The
• Orkney
• Orkney, jarldom of
• Orléans, siege of
• Ormond, James Butler, 1st duke of 1610–88
• Ormond, James Butler, 2nd duke of 1665–1745
• Ormond, Thomas Butler, 10th earl of
• Orthez, battle of, 1814
• orthodox church
• Orwell George 1903–50
• Osborne George
• Osborne House (Isle of Wight).
• Osborne judgment, 1909
• Ossian,
• Ostorius Scapula.
• Oswald St
• Oswald St
• Oswin
• Oswiu
• Otford, battle of
• O'Toole, St Laurence (Lorcan Ua Tuathail) (c.1130–80).
• Otterburn, battle of, 1388
• Oudenarde, battle of, 1708
• outfangthief.
• outlawry
• overseas trade
• Owain ap Gruffydd (Owain Cyfeiliog) (c.1130–97),
• Owain Gwynedd
• Owen David
• Owen Robert 1771–1858
• Owen Wilfred 1893–1918
• Oxford, diocese of
• Oxford, provisions of, 1258
• Oxford, Robert de Vere, 9th earl of 1362–92
• Oxford, St Mary the Virgin
• Oxford Group
• Oxford movement
• Oxford Parliament, 1258
• Oxford Parliament, 1681
• Oxfordshire
• Oxford University
• oyer and terminer
• P
• Pacifico David 1784–1854
• paganism
• Paget, William, 1st Baron Paget 1505–63
• Paine Thomas 1737–1809
• painting
• Paisley Revd Ian 1926–2014
• Pakistan
• palatinates
• Pale, The
• Palestine,
• Paley William 1743–1805
• Palladianism
• Palmer Samuel 1805–81
• Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount
• Pandulf
• Pankhurst Emmeline 1858–1928
• papacy, relations with
• Papineau, Louis-Joseph 1786–1871
• Papua New Guinea
• Paradise Lost
• Paris, treaty of, 1259
• Paris, treaty of, 1295
• Paris, treaty of, 1303
• Paris, treaty of, 1727
• Paris, treaty of, 1763
• Paris, treaty of, 1814
• Paris, treaty of, 1815
• Paris, treaty of, 1856
• parish churches
• Parish Councils Act
• parishes, origins of
• parish registers
• Parisi
• Park Mungo 1771–1806
• Parker Matthew 1504–75
• Parkes Joseph 1796–1865
• parks and recreation grounds
• Parliament
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• Parliament, Houses of
• Parliament Act, 1911
• parliamentarians
• parliamentary reform
• Parnell Charles Stewart 1846–91
• Parr, William, 1st marquis of Northampton 1513–71
• Parry Sir Hubert 1848–1918
• Parsons Sir Charles 1854–1931
• Parsons Robert 1546–1610
• partition treaties
• party system
• Passaro, Cape, battle of.
• Passchendaele, battle of, 1917
• Paston letters
• Patay, battle of, 1429
• Paterson William 1658–1719
• Patrick St
• patriot king
• patriots
• patronage, artistic
• Paulinus St
• Pax Romana
• Peacock Thomas Love 1785–1866
• Peada
• Pearse Patrick 1879–1916
• peasantry
• Peasants’ Revolt
• Peckham John
• Pecock Reginald
• peculiar people
• Peel Sir Robert 1788–1850
• peel towers
• Peep o’ Day Boys
• peerage
• Peerage Bill
• peine forte et dure
• Pelagius
• Pelham Henry
• Pembroke, Richard de Clare, earl of
• Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, 8th earl of 1656–1733
• Pembroke, William Herbert, 1st earl of
• Pembroke castle,
• Pembrokeshire
• penal laws
• Penda
• Peninsular War, 1808–14
• Penn William 1644–1718
• penny post.
• Penruddock's rising, 1655
• Penry John 1563–93
• Penselwood, battle of, 1016
• pensions, old-age.
• Pentecostal churches
• Pentland rising, 1666
• Pentrich rising, 1817
• Pepys Samuel 1633–1703
• Perceval Spencer 1762–1812
• Percy Henry
• Percy, Henry, 1st Baron Percy 1273–1314
• Percy Thomas 1729–1812
• periodicals,
• Perkin William Henry 1860–1929
• Perpendicular architecture
• ‘perpetual peace’, treaty of, 1502
• Perrot Sir John
• Pershore abbey
• Persian War, 1856
• Perth, James Drummond, 4th earl of
• Perth, treaty of, 1266
• Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd earl of 1658–1735
• Peterborough, diocese of
• Peterloo
• Peter's Pence or Rome-scot
• Petillius Cerialis
• petition of right, 1628
• Petroc St
• petroleum industry
• pets
• Petty Sir William 1623–87
• petty sessions
• Petworth House
• Pevensey, battle of, 0491
• Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon 1902–83
• Philip II of Spain
• Philiphaugh, battle of, 1645
• Philippa of Hainault
• philosophical radicals
• Phoenix Park murders
• photography
• Picquigny, treaty of, 1475
• Picton Sir Thomas 1758–1815
• Picts
• piepowder courts
• Piers Plowman
• pigeon-fancying
• Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536–7
• pilgrimages,
• Pilgrim Fathers
• Pilgrim's Progress
• pillory
• Pinkie Cleugh, battle of, 1547
• pipe rolls
• Pipton-on-Wye, treaty of, 1265
• piracy
• Pitt, William, 1st earl of Chatham
• Pitt William
• Place Francis 1771–1854
• place Acts
• place-names
• plague
• Plaid Cymru
• Plantagenets
• plantations
• Plassey, battle of, 1757
• Playfair John 1748–1819
• Playfair Lyon 1818–98
• Playfair William Henry 1790–1857
• pleas of the crown
• pleasure gardens
• Plimsoll Samuel 1824–98
• Plunket St Oliver 1629–81
• Plunket, William, 1st Baron Plunket 1764–1854
• Plunkett Sir Horace 1854–1932
• pluralism
• Plymouth
• Plymouth brethren, Christian brethren, or Darbyites,
• poaching
• pocket boroughs or nomination boroughs
• poet laureate
• Poitiers, battle of, 1356
• Poland, relations with
• Pole, Edmund de la, 3rd duke of Suffolk
• Pole, John de la, 2nd duke of Suffolk 1442–92
• Pole, Margaret de la
• Pole, Michael de la
• Pole Reginald 1500–58
• Pole, William de la, earl, marquis, and 1st duke of Suffolk 1396–1450
• police
• Political Register
• poll tax
• polo
• poor
• poor laws
• pop art
• Pope Alexander 1688–1744
• pop groups
• Popish plot, 1678
• population
• Porson Richard 1759–1808
• Portal, Charles, 1st Viscount Portal 1893–1971
• Porteous riots, 1736
• Portland, battle of, 1653
• Portland, Hans Willem van Bentinck, 1st earl of
• Portland, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd duke of 1738–1809
• Portland, Richard Weston, 1st earl of 1577–1635
• Portsmouth
• Portsmouth, diocese of
• Portsmouth, Louise de Kéroualle, duchess of 1649–1734
• Portugal, relations with
• positivism
• Post Office
• Potsdam conference
• Potter Beatrix 1866–1943
• Powell, J. Enoch 1912–98
• Powys
• Powys, kingdom of
• Poynings's law, 1494
• Praemunire statutes
• Pragmatic Sanction
• Prayer Book.
• Prayer Book rising, 1549
• Premonstratensians
• Pre-Raphaelites
• Prerogative.
• presbyterians
• press-gangs
• Preston, battle of, 1648
• Preston, battle of, 1715
• Prestonpans, battle of, 1745
• Pretoria, convention of, 1881
• prices
• Pride's Purge
• Priestley Joseph 1733–1804
• prime minister
• primitive methodists
• primogeniture
• Primrose League
• Prince Edward Island
• prince of Wales
• printing
• prisons
• privateering
• Privy Council
• pro-Boer
• proclamations
• professions
• Promenade Concerts
• prophecies
• prorogation
• prostitution,
• protectionism
• Protectorate
• protestantism
• provincial council of church
• Provisors, statute of, 1351
• Prussia, relations with
• Prynne William 1600–69
• Public Health Act, 1848
• Public Record Office.
• public schools
• publishing
• pubs
• Pugin Augustus Welby 1812–52
• Puisset Hugh de
• Pulteney, William, 1st earl of Bath 1684–1764
• Punch,
• Purcell Henry 1658–95
• puritans
• purveyancing
• Pusey Edward Bouverie 1800–82
• Putney debates
• Pym John 1584–1643
• Pyrenees, battle of the, 1813
• Q
• Quadruple Alliance
• quakers, or Society of Friends,
• Quarterly Review
• quarter sessions
• Quatre Bras, battle of, 1815
• Quebec, capture of, 1759
• Quebec Act, 1774
• Queen Anne's Bounty
• Queensberry, James Douglas, 2nd duke of
• Queensberry, John Sholto Douglas, 9th marquis of
• Queensberry, William Douglas, 5th duke of
• queen's counsel (king's counsel).
• Queenston Heights, battle of, 1812
• Queen's University,
• quia emptores,
• Quiberon Bay, battle of, 1759
• quo warranto proceedings
• R
• R 101 airship
• race relations
• Radcot Bridge, battle of, 1387
• radicalism
• radio
• Radnorshire
• Raeburn Sir Henry 1756–1823
• Raedwald
• Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford 1781–1826
• ragged schools
• Raglan, Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron 1788–1855
• Raglan castle
• rail system
• railway stations
• Ralegh Sir Walter
• Ramillies, battle of, 1706
• Ramsay Allan 1713–84
• Ramsay Sir William 1852–1916
• Ramsbury, diocese of
• Ramsey Michael 1904–88
• Ranelagh
• ranters
• Ranulf Flambard
• rapes
• rates
• Rathmines, battle of, 1649
• Ray John 1607–1705
• Reading
• Reading, Rufus David Isaacs, 1st marquis of 1860–1935
• Rebecca riots, 1838–44
• record offices
• recruiters
• Reculver
• recusants
• Redmond John 1856–1918
• Red River rebellion, 1869
• reeve
• referenda
• Reflections on the Revolution in France
• Reform Acts
• Reformation
• Reform Club
• Reform League, 1865–9
• regalia
• Regency
• Regency crisis, 1788–9
• regicides
• Register House
• regium donum
• Regni
• Reith, John, 1st Baron Reith 1889–1971
• reivers or moss-troopers
• religious toleration,
• Remembrance Day
• Remonstrants.
• Renaissance
• Rennie John 1761–1821
• Renunciation Act, 1783
• Repeal Association, 1840–8
• representative peers
• Repton
• Repton Humphry 1752–1818
• republicanism
• Requests, Court of
• resolutions, 1650
• Restoration
• retail trade
• retainers.
• Revocation Act, 1625
• Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
• Reynolds Sir Joshua 1723–92
• Rheged, kingdom of
• Rhodes Cecil 1853–1902
• Rhodesia
• Rhodri
• Rhuddlan, statute of, 1284
• Rhys ap Gruffydd
• Rhys ap Tewdwr
• Ribbonmen
• Ricardo David 1772–1823
• Rich St Edmund
• Richard I
• Richard II
• Richard III
• Richard, earl of Cornwall
• Richard de Bury 1281–1345
• Richard of Chichester
• Richardson Samuel 1689–1761
• Richborough,
• Richmond castle
• Richmond palace
• riding
• Ridley Nicholas
• Ridolfi plot, 1571
• Rievaulx abbey
• Rights of Man, The
• Ripon, diocese of
• Ripon, George Frederick Robinson, 1st Marquis 1827–1909
• Ripon, treaty of, 1640
• Riot Act, 1715
• Ritchie William 1781–1831
• River Idle, battle of the, 0616
• River Plate, battle of the, 1939
• rivers
• Rivers, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl 1442–83
• Rivers, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl
• Rizzio David
• roads
• Robert I (Robert Bruce) (1274–1329),
• Robert II
• Robert III
• Robert, earl of Gloucester
• Robert of Bellême, earl of Shrewsbury
• Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy
• Robert of Jumièges
• Roberts Frederick Sleigh 1832–1914
• Robertson William 1721–93
• Robey George 1869–1954
• Robin Hood.
• Robinson John 1650–1723
• Robinson Peter
• Robinson Crusoe
• Rochdale Pioneers
• Roches Peter des
• Rochester, diocese of
• Rochester, Laurence Hyde, 1st earl of 1642–1711
• Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd earl of 1647–80
• Rochester castle
• Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd marquis of 1730–82
• Rockingham, Council of, 1095
• Rodney George Brydges 1719–92
• Roe Richard
• Roebuck John 1718–94
• Roebuck John Arthur 1801–79
• Roger
• Rogers John
• Rolls Charles Stewart 1877–1910
• Roman Britain
• Roman catholicism.
• Romanesque architecture.
• Roman legions
• Romanticism
• Rome, treaty of
• Romilly Sir Samuel 1757–1818
• Romney George 1734–1802
• Rooke George 1650–1709
• root and branch petition, 1640
• Rorke's Drift, battle of, 1879
• Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of 1847–1929
• Roses, Wars of the
• Rosicrucians
• Ross, James Stewart, 1st duke of
• Ross, Sir James Clark 1800–62
• Ross Sir John 1777–1856
• Rossetti Dante Gabriel 1828–82
• Rotary clubs
• Rotherham Thomas 1423–1500
• Rothermere Viscount
• Rothes, John Leslie, 1st duke of
• Rothesay, David Stewart, 1st duke of
• Rothschild Lionel 1808–79
• rotten boroughs
• Roubiliac, Louis François
• Rouen, treaty of, 1517
• rough music
• ‘rough wooing’, 1544–8
• roundheads
• Roundway Down, battle of, 1643
• rowing
• Rowlandson Thomas
• Rowntree Benjamin Seebohm 1871–1954
• Rowton Heath, battle of, 1645
• Roxburgh, John Ker, 1st duke of
• Royal Academy of Arts
• Royal Africa Company
• Royal Air Force
• Royal British Legion
• Royal College of Music
• royal commissions
• Royal Exchange
• Royal Flying Corps
• Royal George
• Royal Institution
• Royal Irish Academy
• Royal Irish Constabulary.
• royalists.
• Royal Marines
• Royal Marriages Act, 1772
• Royal Naval Air Service
• Royal Navy.
• Royal Opera House
• Royal Philharmonic Society
• royal prerogative
• Royal Scottish Academy
• Royal Society
• Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
• Royal Society of Arts
• Royal Titles Act, 1876
• Royal Ulster Constabulary
• Royal Victorian Order
• Royce, Sir (Frederick) Henry
• rugby football
• Rugby School
• ‘Rule, Britannia!’
• Rump Parliament
• Runcie Robert 1921–2000
• Rupert Prince 1619–82
• Ruskin John 1819–1900
• Russell, Bertrand, 3rd Earl Russell 1872–1970
• Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell 1792–1878
• Russell Lord William 1639–83
• Russia, relations with
• Russia Company
• Rutherford Ernest 1871–1937
• Ruthven raid, 1582
• Ruthwell cross
• Rutland
• Rye House plot, 1683
• Rysbrack John Michael 1694–1770
• Ryswick, treaty of, 1697
• S
• sabbatarianism
• sac and soc
• Sacheverell riots, 1710
• Sacket's harbour, battle of, 1813
• Sadler Sir Ralph 1507–87
• sailing
• St Albans, battle of, 1455
• St Albans, battle of, 1461
• St Albans, diocese of
• St Andrews
• St Asaph, diocese of
• St Brice's Day massacre
• St Christopher and Nevis
• St Davids, diocese of
• Saint-Germain, treaty of, 1919
• St Germans, diocese of
• St Helena,
• St James's palace,
• St Kitts.
• St Leger, Sir Anthony
• St Lucia
• St Michael and St George, Order of
• St Paul's cathedral
• Saints, battle of the, 1782
• St Vincent and the Grenadines
• Salamanca, battle of, 1812
• Salesbury William
• Salisbury
• Salisbury, diocese of
• Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquis of 1830–1903
• Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th marquis of 1893–1972
• Salisbury, Thomas Montagu, 4th earl of 1388–1428
• Salisbury, Richard Neville, 5th earl of 1400–60
• Salisbury, Margaret Pole, countess of 1473–1541
• Salisbury, oath of, 1086
• Salisbury, treaty of, 1289
• Salmond Alex
• Salt Sir Titus 1803–76
• Salvation Army
• Sampford Courtenay, battle of, 1549
• Samson 1135–1211
• Samson St
• Samuel, Sir Herbert, 1st Viscount Samuel 1870–1963
• Sancroft William 1617–93
• sanctions
• sanctuary
• Sandringham House
• Sand River convention, 1852
• Sandwich, battle of, 1217
• Sandwich, Edward Montagu, 1st earl of 1625–72
• Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th earl of 1718–92
• sanitation.
• Saragossa, battle of, 1710
• Saratoga, surrender of, 1777
• Sarawak
• Sargent John Singer 1856–1925
• Sark, battle of, 1448
• Sarsfield Patrick
• Sauchieburn, battle of, 1488
• Saunderson Edward James 1837–1906
• Savery Thomas
• Savoy conference, 1661
• Saxons.
• Saxon Shore
• Saye and Sele, William Fiennes, 1st Viscount 1582–1662
• Scapa Flow
• Scarlett, James, 1st Baron Abinger 1769–1844
• Scheveningen, battle of, 1653
• Schism Act, 1714
• Schomberg, Frederick Herman, 1st duke of 1615–90
• schools
• Schools Act (Scotland), 1696
• Schooneveld, battle of, 1673
• Science Museums
• scientific revolution
• Scilly Isles
• Scone, stone of
• scot and lot
• Scots, kingdom of
• Scotsman
• Scott, Sir George Gilbert 1811–78
• Scott, Sir Robert Falcon 1868–1912
• Scott Sir Walter 1771–1832
• Scottish Enlightenment
• Scottish Independence referendum
• Scottish National Party (SNP).
• Scottish Wars of Independence, 1296–1357
• Scott Memorial
• Scrope Richard
• scutage or shield-money
• sea power
• seaside holidays
• Sebastopol, siege of
• Second World War
• secretaries of state
• secret ballot
• secret service
• sects.
• secularism
• Security, Act of
• Sedgemoor, battle of, 1685
• Seditious Meetings Act, 1795
• Seisyllwg, kingdom of
• Selborne, Roundell Palmer, 1st earl of 1812–95
• Selby, battle of, 1644
• Selby abbey
• Selden John 1584–1654
• self-denying ordinance, 1645
• self-help
• Selgovae
• Selsey, diocese of
• Senior Nassau
• Septennial Act, 1716
• Septimius Severus.
• serfdom
• serjeant at law
• Settlement, Act of, 1701
• Settlements and Removals, Act of, 1662
• seven bishops, trial of the, 1688
• Sevenoaks, battle of, 1450
• seventh-day adventists
• Seven Years War, 1756–63
• Seville, treaty of, 1729
• Seychelles
• Seymour Lady Catherine 1540–68
• Seymour Sir Edward 1633–1708
• Seymour, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron 1508–49
• Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry 1874–1922
• Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of 1621–83
• Shaftesbury, Antony Ashley Cooper, 7th earl of 1801–85
• Shakespeare William 1564–1616
• Shannon, Richard Boyle, 2nd earl of
• Sharp Granville 1735–1813
• Sharp James 1613–79
• Shaw George Bernard 1856–1950
• Shawfield riots, 1725
• Sheffield
• Sheffield, diocese of
• Shelburne, William Petty, 2nd earl of 1737–1805
• Sheldon Gilbert 1598–1677
• Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft 1797–1851
• Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792–1822
• Sheraton Thomas 1751–1806
• Sherborne, diocese of
• Sherborne abbey
• Sheridan Richard Brinsley 1751–1816
• Sheriffmuir, battle of, 1715
• sheriffs
• Sherston, battle of, 1016
• Shetland
• shipbuilding
• ship money
• Shippen William 1673–1743
• shires.
• shooting,
• shops
• Short Parliament
• Shovell Sir Clowdesley 1650–1707
• Shrewsbury
• Shrewsbury, battle of, 1403
• Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, 1st duke of 1660–1718
• Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of 1518–1608
• Shrewsbury, John Talbot, 1st earl of
• shrines
• Shropshire
• Sickert Walter Richard 1860–1942
• Siddons Sarah 1755–1831
• Sidney Algernon 1622–83
• Sidney Sir Henry 1529–86
• Sidney Sir Philip 1554–86
• Sierra Leone
• Sigeberht
• Sigurd, jarl of Orkney
• Sihtric (Sigtryggr) (d. 927),
• Sikh wars
• Silchester
• Silures
• silver jubilees
• Simeon Charles 1759–1836
• Simnel Lambert
• Simon Sir John 1873–1954
• simony
• Simpson Sir James 1811–70
• Simpson Mrs Wallis 1896–1986
• Sinclair, Sir Archibald, 1st Viscount Thurso 1890–1970
• Singapore
• sinking fund
• Sinn Fein
• Siward, earl of Northumbria
• Six Acts, 1819
• Six Articles, Act of
• Skippon Philip
• slave trade
• Slim, William, 1st Viscount Slim
• Slioch, battle of, 1307
• Sluys, battle of, 1340
• Smeaton John 1724–92
• Smiles Samuel 1812–1904
• Smith Adam 1723–90
• Smith, Frederick E., 1st Lord Birkenhead 1872–1930
• Smith Ian Douglas 1919–2007
• Smith John 1938–94
• Smith Sir Sidney 1764–1840
• Smith Sydney 1771–1845
• Smith Sir Thomas 1513–77
• Smith, W. H
• Smollett Tobias 1721–74
• smuggling
• Smuts Jan Christian 1870–1950
• Snowden Philip 1864–1937
• Soane Sir John 1753–1837
• soccer.
• Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).
• Social Democratic Federation
• Social Democratic Party
• social history
• socialism
• socialism, Christian
• Society for Constitutional Information
• Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK).
• Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG).
• socinians
• Sodor and Man, diocese of
• Solemn League and Covenant
• solicitor-general
• Solomon Islands
• Solway Moss, battle of, 1542
• Somerled, lord of the Isles
• Somers, John, 1st Baron Somers
• Somerset
• Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 1st duke of
• Somerset, Charles Seymour, 6th duke of 1662–1748
• Somerset, Edward Seymour, 1st duke of
• Somerset, William Seymour, 1st duke of 1587–1660
• Somerset case
• Somerville Mary 1780–1872
• Somme, battle of the, 1916
• Sophia, electress of Hanover 1630–1714
• Sophia Dorothea 1666–1726
• South Africa, Republic of
• Southampton
• Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd earl of 1573–1624
• Southcott Joanna 1750–1814
• South-East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
• Southern Rhodesia.
• Southey Robert 1774–1843
• South Sea bubble
• Southwark, diocese of
• Southwell, diocese of
• Southwold or Sole Bay, battle of, 1672
• South Yorkshire.
• Spa Fields riot, 1816
• Spain, relations with
• Spanish blanks conspiracy, 1593
• Spanish Succession, War of the, 1702–13
• spas
• Speaker
• Spectator
• Speenhamland poor relief system
• Speke John Hanning 1827–64
• Spence, Sir Basil Urwin 1907–76
• Spence Thomas 1750–1814
• Spencer Herbert 1820–1903
• Spencer, John Poyntz, 5th Earl 1835–1910
• Spenser Edmund 1552–99
• Spion Kop, battle of, 1900
• Spithead naval mutiny, 1797
• ‘splendid isolation’
• sport, development of
• Spottiswood John 1565–1639
• Spurs, battle of the, 1513
• squash rackets
• squire
• Sri Lanka or Ceylon
• Stafford John
• Stafford, William Howard, 1st Viscount 1612–80
• Staffordshire
• stage-coaches
• stained glass,
• Stainmore, battle of, 0954
• stallers
• Stamford
• Stamford Bridge, battle of, 1066
• Stamp Act, 1765
• Standard, battle of the, 1138
• Stanford Charles Villiers 1852–1924
• Stanhope, James Stanhope, 1st Earl 1673–1721
• Stanley, Sir Henry Morton 1841–1904
• Stanley, Thomas, 1st earl of Derby
• stannaries
• staple
• Star Chamber
• statutes.
• steam-engines
• Steel David
• Steelboys
• Steele Sir Richard 1672–1729
• Steelyard
• Steenkirk, battle of, 1692
• Stephen
• Stephen James FitzJames 1829–94
• Stephen Harding, St
• Stephens James 1825–1901
• Stephenson George 1781–1848
• Stephenson Robert 1803–59
• Sterne Laurence 1713–68
• Stevenson Robert Louis 1850–94
• Stewart Alexander
• Stewart Dugald 1753–1828
• Stewart James
• Stigand
• Stilicho
• stipendiary magistrates
• Stirling Bridge, battle of, 1297
• Stirling castle,
• Stock Exchange
• stocks
• Stoke, battle of, 1487
• Stoke-on-Trent
• Stonehenge
• Stopes Marie 1880–1958
• Stormont
• Stow John 1525–1605
• Stowell, William Scott, 1st Baron 1745–1836
• Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of 1593–1641
• Stratford John de
• Stratford de Redcliffe, Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount 1786–1880
• Stratford-upon-Avon
• Strathclyde
• Strathclyde, kingdom of
• Stratton, battle of, 1643
• strict settlement.
• Stuart Arabella 1575–1615
• Stuart Charles Edward
• Stuart, Cardinal Henry Benedict 1725–1807
• Stuart, house of
• Stuart, James Francis Edward
• Stubbs George 1724–1806
• Stubbs William 1829–1901
• submission of the clergy, 1532
• subsidies
• Succession, Acts of
• Sudan
• Sudbury Simon
• Suetonius Paullinus
• Suez canal and crisis
• Suffolk
• Suffolk, Charles Brandon, 1st duke of 1484–1545
• suffrage
• suffragettes
• suicide
• Sullivan Sir Arthur 1842–1900
• sumptuary laws
• Sunday observance.
• Sunday schools
• Sunderland, Charles Spencer, 3rd earl of 1674–1722
• Sunderland, Robert Spencer, 2nd earl of 1641–1702
• Super anxietatibus, 1176
• Supremacy, Act of
• Surrey,
• Surrey, Henry Howard, Lord
• Surrey, kingdom of
• Susa, treaty of, 1629
• suspending power
• Sussex
• Sussex, East
• Sussex, kingdom of
• Sussex, Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd earl of
• Sussex, West
• Sutherland Graham 1903–80
• Sutton Hoo
• Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson 1828–1914
• Swansea
• Swansea and Brecon, diocese of
• Swaziland
• Sweden, relations with
• Swedenborgians
• Sweyn Estrithsson
• Sweyn Forkbeard
• Sweyn Godwineson
• Swift Jonathan 1667–1745
• swimming
• Swing riots, 1830
• syndicalists
• Synge, J. M. 1871–1909
• synods
• T
• Tacitus.
• Taff Vale judgment, 1902
• Táin Bó Cuailnge
• Tait Archibald 1811–82
• Talavera, battle of, 1809
• Talbot, William Henry Fox 1800–77
• Talents, Ministry of All the, 1806–7
• Taliesin
• tallage
• Tallis Thomas
• Tamworth manifesto, 1835
• Tanzania
• Tara, hill of
• Taranto, battle of, 1940
• tariff reform.
• Tasmania (formerly Van Diemen's Land),
• Tate Gallery
• Tatler
• Tawney, R. H. 1880–1962
• taxation
• Tay bridge
• Taylor Jeremy 1613–67
• Tayside
• technology
• Tedder Sir Arthur 1890–1967
• Teheran conference
• Teilo St
• Tel-el-Kebir, battle of, 1882
• television
• Telford Thomas 1757–1834
• temperance movement
• Templars
• Temple Sir William 1628–99
• Temple William 1881–1944
• Tempsford, battle of
• Tenant League
• tenant right
• tenants-in-chief
• Tenerife, battle of, 1657
• Ten Hours Act
• Tenison Thomas 1636–1715
• tennis.
• Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson 1809–92
• Territorials
• terrorism,
• Terry Ellen 1847–1928
• Test Act, 1673
• Tettenhall, battle of, 0910
• Tewkesbury, battle of, 1471
• Tewkesbury abbey
• Texel, battle of the, 1673
• Teyte Dame Maggie 1888–1976
• Thackeray William Makepeace 1811–63
• thanes.
• Thatcher Margaret 1925–2013
• theatre
• thegns
• Theobald
• Theodore of Tarsus
• Thirty-Nine Articles
• Thirty Years War
• Thistle, Order of the
• Thomas Dylan 1914–53
• Thomas, J. H. 1874–1949
• Thomas of Lancaster
• Thomas of Woodstock
• Thomson, J. J. 1856–1940
• Thorfinn, earl of Orkney
• Thorpe, (John) Jeremy
• Three Choirs Festival
• Throckmorton Sir Nicholas 1516–71
• Throckmorton plot, 1583
• Thurles, Synod of
• Thurloe John 1616–68
• Thurlow, Edward, 1st Baron Thurlow 1731–1806
• Thurstan
• Tichborne Chidiock
• Tien-Tsin, treaty of, 1858
• Tierney George 1761–1830
• Tillett Ben 1860–1943
• Tillotson John 1630–94
• Times, The
• Tinchebrai, battle of, 1106
• Tindal Matthew 1655–1733
• tin-mining
• Tintern
• Tippermuir, battle of, 1644
• Tippett Sir Michael 1905–98
• Tiptoft, John, 1st earl of Worcester
• Tironensians
• Titanic
• tithe
• tobacco industry
• Tobruk, battle of, 1941
• Toc H
• Toleration Act, 1689
• Tolpuddle martyrs
• Tone Wolfe 1763–98
• Tonga
• tonnage and poundage
• Tories
• Torres Vedras
• Torrington, battle of, 1646
• torture
• Tostig, earl of Northumbria
• touching for the king's evil
• Toulouse, battle of, 1814
• tourism
• tournaments
• Tours, truce of, 1444
• Tower of London (White Tower).
• towns
• Townshend Charles 1725–67
• Townshend, Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount 1674–1738
• Townshend George 1724–1807
• townswomen's guilds,
• Towton, battle of, 1461
• tractarianism
• trade
• Trade, Board of
• Trades Disputes Act, 1906
• Trades Union Congress
• Trade Union Act, 1871
• trade unions,
• Trafalgar, battle of, 1805
• Traherne Thomas 1637–74
• trained bands
• trams
• transport
• transportation
• Transvaal
• treason
• treasurer
• Treasury
• Trenchard, Hugh, 1st Viscount Trenchard 1873–1956
• Trent, battle on the, 0679
• Trent case, 1861
• Trenton, battle of, 1776
• Tresilian Sir Robert
• Trevithick Richard 1771–1833
• trial by battle
• trial by ordeal
• Triennial Acts
• Trimble, (William) David
• trimmer
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Trinity College, Dublin
• Trinovantes
• Triple Alliance
• Trojan legend.
• Trollope Anthony 1815–82
• Trotskyites
• Troyes, treaty of, 1420
• Troyes, treaty of, 1564
• truck,
• Truro, diocese of
• Tuam, archiepiscopal diocese of
• Tudor, house of
• Tudor, Jasper, 1st earl of Pembroke and 1st duke of Bedford
• Tudor Owen
• Tull Jethro 1674–1741
• Tullibardine, William Murray, marquis of 1689–1746
• Tunstall Cuthbert 1474–1559
• Turks and Ottomans, relations with
• Turner, Joseph Mallord William 1775–1851
• Turnham Green, battle of, 1642
• turnpikes
• Turpin Dick 1706–39
• Tuvalu
• Tweeddale, John Hay, 1st marquis of
• Tweeddale, John Hay, 2nd marquis of
• Twickenham stadium
• Two Treatises of Government
• Tyburn,
• Tyler Wat
• Tyndale William
• Tyndall John 1820–93
• Tyne and Wear
• Tynwald,
• Tyrconnel, Richard Talbot, 1st Earl (I) 1630–91
• Tyrell Sir James
• Tyrone
• U
• Udall Nicholas 1505–56
• Uganda
• Ulster
• Ulster, kingdom of (kingdom of Ulaid).
• Ulster covenant, 1912
• Ulster custom
• Ulster Special Constabulary, 1920–70
• Ulster Unionist Council
• Ulster Unionist Labour Association
• Ulster Unionist Party
• Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
• Ulundi, battle of, 1879
• unauthorized programme, 1885
• undertaker system
• unemployment
• Uniformity, Acts of
• Union, Act of (Ireland), 1800
• Union, Act of (Scotland), 1707
• Union, Act of (Wales).
• Unionist Party of Northern Ireland
• Union Jack
• Union of Democratic Control
• unitarians
• United Empire Loyalists
• United Irishmen
• United Kingdom.
• United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP).
• United Nations
• United Scotsmen
• United States of America, relations with
• universities
• ‘Unlearned’ Parliament, 1404
• urban history
• Urien
• Ursulines
• Uses, statute of, 1535
• Ushant, battle of, 1778
• Ussher James 1581–1656
• usury laws
• utilitarianism
• Utopia
• Utrecht, treaty of, 1713
• Uxbridge, treaty of, 1645
• V
• vaccination,
• Vagrancy Acts
• Valence, Aymer de, earl of Pembroke
• Vanbrugh Sir John 1664–1726
• Vancouver George
• Van Dyck, Anthony 1599–1641
• Vane, Sir Henry the elder (1589–1655) and Sir Henry the younger (1613–62).
• Vanuatu,
• vassal
• Vaughan Henry
• Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1872–1958
• Vauxhall gardens
• Vereeniging, treaty of
• Verneuil, battle of, 1424
• Vernon Edward 1684–1757
• Versailles, treaty of, 1783
• Versailles, treaty of, 1919
• Verulamium
• Vespasian
• Victoria
• Victoria and Albert Museum
• Victoria Cross
• Victory, HMS
• Vienna, Congress of, 1814–15
• Vienna, treaty of, 1731
• Vigo Bay, battle of, 1702
• Viking
• villas, Roman
• Villaviciosa, battle of, 1710
• villein
• Vimeiro, battle of, 1808
• Vinegar Hill, battle of, 1798
• Virgin Islands
• viscounts
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• Wake William 1657–1737
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• Wakefield, diocese of
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• Wales, statute of.
• Walker George 1618–90
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• Waller Sir William 1598–1668
• Wallingford, treaty of.
• Wallis John 1616–1703
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• Wantage code
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• weights and measures
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• Welles Richard and Robert (d. 1470).
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• Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of 1769–1852
• Wells, H. G. 1866–1946
• Wells cathedral.
• Welsh language
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• Wiseman Nicholas 1802–65
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• Wolff Gustav Wilhelm 1834–1913
• Wollstonecraft Mary 1759–97
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• Wolsey Thomas
• women's institutes
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• Wood, Sir Henry J. 1869–1944
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• Worcester, diocese of
• Worcester, pact of, 1264
• Worcester, Thomas Percy, 1st earl of
• Worcester, treaty of, 1218
• Worcestershire
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• Wren Sir Christopher 1632–1723
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• Wroxeter
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• Yalta conference
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• York, house of.
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• Yorkists
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