Index

A

Adelin, William 1

Æthelred II 1

Alam, Shah 1

Alcott, Louisa May 1

Alexander I Obrenović, King 1

Alexander III, Pope 1, 2

Alfred Bird and Sons Ltd 1

Algonquin 1–2

Ali, Asif 1

Ali, Mohammed 1

Analytical Engine 1, 2–3

Andrews, Thomas 1

Appleton, James 1

Arbuthnot, Dr 1

Archer, John 1

Aris, Michael 1–2

arsenic poisoning 1–2

Aslam, Ali Ahmed 1

astronomy 1–2

Atkins, Sir Richard 1

Aung San, General 1, 2

Aung San Suu Kyi 1–2

Ayscough, Rev William 1

B

Babbage, Charles 1, 2–3

Babur 1–2

Baird, Julia 1

baking powder 1

Balding, Clare 1

Balkan Wars (1912–13) 1

Barrie, J. M. 1

Bartos, Karl 1

Battle of Arques (1589) 1–2

Baxter, Raymond 1

Baynes, Rear-Admiral Robert L. 1–2

Beagle, HMS 1–2

The Beatles 1–2

Becket, Thomas 1–2

Behn, Aphra 1

Benn, Tony 1

Benz, Karl 1

Bernard of Chartres 1

Bird, Alfred 1–2

Bird, Elizabeth 1–2

Birrell, Augustine 1

Bismarck, Otto von 1

Blackburn, Jemima 1

Blair, Tony 1

Blunt, Anthony 1–2, 3

Bodley Head Publishers 1–2

Bonaparte, Napoléon 1

Borchers 1

Borden Inc 1, 2–3

Boswell, James 1

Bowie, David 1

Boyle, Robert 1

Brearley, Harry 1–2

Breville 1

British Stainless Steel Association 1

British Telecom 1

Broc, Ranulf de 1

Brontë, Anne 1

Brontë, Charlotte 1

Brown Firth Laboratories 1–2

Bruce, Kathleen 1

Brustlein 1

Bryant and May 1

Buchanan, James 1

Bunyan, John 1–2, 3

Burgess, Guy 1–2, 3–4

Burran, Mark 1

Byng, Admiral John 1

Byrhtnoth 1–2, 3, 4

Byron, Lord 1–2, 3

C

Čabrinović, Nedeljko 1, 2, 3, 4

Cairncross, John 1

Cairns, Hugh 1

Californian 1–2

Cambridge Apostles 1

Cambridge Spy Ring 1–2

Carlyle, Thomas 1–2

Carpathia 1

Cascelloid 1–2

Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle 1–2

Cavendish, William 1–2

Chadwick, Elizabeth 1

Chain, Ernst 1

Chamberlain, Neville 1–2

Champion, Charles 1

Chapman, Sir Thomas 1

Charles II, King 1

Charman-Anderson, Suw 1

chicken tikka masala 1–2

Cholmondeley, Eliza 1

Christie, Agatha 1, 2, 3

City of Memphis 1

Clive, Rebecca and Richard 1–2

Clive, Robert 1–2

Cobb, Frank I. 1

computers 1–2, 3–4

Cook, Captain James 1, 2, 3

Cook, Robin 1

crash helmets 1, 2, 3

Čubrilović, Vaso 1, 2

Curčić, Fehim 1

curry 1–2

Cutlar, Lyman 1–2, 3

D

Dalrymple, William 1

Darwin, Charles 1–2, 3, 4

Dash, Mike 1

David, Elizabeth 1

Davidson, Jim 1

Davis, Rod 1

Davison, Emily Wilding 1–2

Defoe, Daniel 1

Depeche Mode 1

Descartes, René 1, 2

Dickens, Charles 1, 2

Dimitrijević, Dragutin (Apis) 1

Douglas, James 1–2

Douglas-Home, Sir 1

Draga, Queen 1

Du Cros, Harvey 1, 2

Dunlop, John 1–2

E

Earle, Colonel 1

East India Company 1, 2, 3, 4

Edward Hack Ltd 1

Elizabeth I, Queen 1

Enigma Code 1

European Economic Community (EEC) 1

Evans, Cyril 1

Ewart, William 1

F

Fandiño, Juan de León 1–2, 3

Faraday, Michael 1

Fedida, Sam 1

Ferdinand, Archduke Franz 1, 2–3

fire 1–2, 3–4

First World War (1914–18) 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

FitzRoy, Captain Robert 1–2

Fleet, Frederick 1, 2

Fleming, Alexander 1–2

Florey, Howard 1, 2

Flür, Wolfgang 1

G

Gaitskell, Hugh 1

Gallico, Paul 1–2

Galton, Ray 1

Gandhi, Mahatma 1

Garry, Len 1, 2

Gates, Bill 1

general elections 1–2

Geoffrey of Anjou 1, 2

Gifford, John 1

Gildas 1

Goddard, William 1, 2

Gold, Steve 1–2

Goldschmidt, Hans 1

Goodyear, Charles 1

Gordon, Augusta Ada 1–2

Gore, Martin 1

Grabež, Trifko 1, 2

The Grecian 1–2

Greene, Sir Hugh 1, 2

Griffin, Charles 1–2

Griffith-Jones, Mervyn 1

Griffiths, Eric 1

Groves, Charles 1–2

Guillet, Leon 1

H

Halley, Edmond 1–2, 3–4

Hanton, Colin 1

Hardaker, William ‘Humbug Billy’ 1, 2

Hardrada, Harald 1

Hari, Mata 1

Harland and Wolff 1

Harney, Brigadier-General William S. 1

Harold II, King 1, 2

Harris, Kitty 1

Harrison, Andrew 1

Harrison, George 1

Hax 1

Heath, Edward 1–2

Heatley, Norman 1

Hellmann, Richard 1

Hemingway, Ernest 1–2

Henrietta Maria, Queen 1

Henry I, King 1–2

Henry II, King 1–2, 3

Henry IV, King 1

Henry VIII, King 1

Henry the Younger 1–2

Henslow, John Stevens 1

Henson, William 1

Herberte-Basing, Mr Sidney 1

Hitler, Adolf 1, 2–3, 4

Hobbes, Thomas 1

Hodgson, Charles 1, 2

Hogg, George 1–2

Hooke, Robert 1–2, 3, 4

Hooley, Terah 1

Housatonic 1

Htin Kyaw 1

Hudson’s Bay Company 1

Hume, Willie 1

Hunt, William 1

Hunter, John 1

Hütter, Ralf 1, 2

Huygens, Christiaan 1

I

Ilić, Danilo 1

Illinois 1

International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) 1–2

International Ice Patrol 1

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources 1

International Whaling Commission 1

Iraq War (2003) 1

Ismay, J. Bruce 1

J

Jafar, Mir 1

James II, King 1

Jenkins, Robert 1–2, 3

Jenner, Edward 1–2

Jenner Institute 1

Jif 1–2

Jobs, Steve 1

John, King 1

Johnson, David 1

Johnson, Dr Samuel 1

Jones, Herbert 1

Joseph, Emperor Franz 1

Junner, Sarah 1

Justinian I, Emperor 1–2

Juvenal 1

K

Keeler, Christine 1

Keiller, James 1–2

Keiller, Janet 1–2

Keiller Company 1

Keiller (James) and Son 1

Kepler, Johannes 1

Kettilby, Mary 1

Khin Kyi 1, 2, 3

King, Lady Augusta Ada (Ada Lovelace) 1–2

King, William 1

Kraftwerk 1–2

Krupp Iron Works 1

Krushchev, President 1

L

Lamb, Lady Caroline 1

lampreys 1–2

Lane, Allen 1–2

Lane, Dick 1

Lane, John 1, 2

Lavater, Johann 1

Lawrence, D. H. 1

Lawrence of Arabia (T. E. Lawrence) 1–2

Lee, Reginald 1

lemon juice container 1–2

Lennon, John 1–2

Leonardo da Vinci 1

Leyden, John 1

libraries 1

Lister, Joseph 1, 2

literature 1, 2, 3–4, 5–6

Livingstone, Dr 1

Lodge, Caroline 1

Lojka, Leopold 1, 2–3

Lord, Stanley 1

Lord, Walter 1, 2

Lorraine, Charles de 1–2

Louis XIV 1

Lownie, Andrew 1

Ludlow, Daniel 1

Luke, Sir Samuel 1

Lusitania, RMS 1, 2

Lyman M. Law 1–2

M

McCartney, Paul 1–2

McCormick, Neil 1

McGoohan, Patrick 1

Mackintosh, Lt Col 1

Maclean, Donald 1–2, 3–4

Macmillan, Harold 1

Magna Carta 1

Malcolm III, King of Scotland 1

Maly, Theodore 1

Mann, Wilfrid 1

Mao Tse Tung 1

Marling, Melinda 1, 2

marmalade 1–2

Marr, Johnny 1

Maskelyne, Margaret 1

Matania, Fortunino 1, 2

matches 1–2

Matilda, Queen 1

Matilda of Scotland 1–2

Maurois, André 1

mayonnaise 1, 2–3

Mehmedbašić, Muhamed 1, 2

Menabrea, Luigi 1

MI5 1–2

Micronet Mailbox 1

Middleton, Captain Frank A. 30

Milbanke, Anne Isabella (Annabella) 1–2, 3, 4

Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) 1–2

Missourian 1

Moivre, Abraham de 1

Monnartz 1–2

Montagu, John, 4th Earl of Sandwich 1–2

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley 1

Mosley, R. F. 1

Mouillot, Mr 1

Murray, Fanny 1

music 1, 2–3, 4–5

N

National Health Service 1

National League for Democracy (NLD) 1–2

Ne Win, General 1

Neal, Joseph 1, 2, 3

Nelmes, Sarah 1

Newcomen, Thomas 1

Newton, Isaac 1–2, 3

Northern Men’s Federation for Women’s Suffrage 1

O

O’Brien, John 1

Oliver, Lord of Aylmerton 1

Ono, Yoko 1

P

Pankhurst, Emmeline 1

Papin, Denis 1–2

Pasch, Gustav Erik 1

Pelican Books 1

Penguin Books 1–2

Penguin Classics 1

penicillin 1–2

Philby, Kim 1, 2–3

Philip, Prince 1, 2

Phillips, John 1

Phipps, Charles 1, 2, 3

Phipps, James 1

Pitt, William the Elder 1

Pitt, William the Younger 1

plague 1, 2–3

Pneumatic Tyre and Booth’s Cycle Agency 1

pneumatic tyres 1–2

poisoning 1–2

Popović, Cvjetko 1

Post Office 1–2

Potiorek, General Oskar 1, 2

Prescott, Clifford 1

Prestel 1–2

Princip, Gavrilo 1–2, 3, 4–5, 6–7

Principia 1–2

The Prisoner 1

Procopius 1

Profumo affair 1

Ptarmigan 1

Puffin Books 1

Pugh, William Alec Gibson 1–2, 3

Q

The Quarrymen 1–2

R

ReaLemon 1–2

Reckitt & Colman Ltd 1, 2–3

Red List of Threatened Species 1

road-safety legislation 1

Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester 1, 2, 3

Rodger, N.A.M. 1

Roger de Pont l’Évêque 1

Roger of Wendover 1–2

Rolls, Charles 1

Rose, Leutnant Hans 1

Ross, John Hume 1

Rostron, Arthur 1

Rousseau, Margaret Hutchinson 1

Rowland, Kevin 1

Royce, Frederick 1

rubber 1

S

Sahib, Chanda 1

sandwiches 1–2

Savery, Thomas 1–2

Sayers, Dorothy L. 1

Scattergood, Francis 1

Schifreen, Robert 1–2

Schneider, Florian 1

Scott, Andy 1

Scott, Peter 1–2

Scott, Robert Falcon 1, 2

Scott, Walter 1

seat belts 1

Second World War (1939–45) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9–10

Sedgwick, Professor Adam 1

Seven Years’ War (1754) 1, 2

Severn Wildfowl Trust 1

Shakespeare, William 1

Shaw, T. E. 1

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1–2

Shish Mahal 1, 2

Shotton, Pete 1, 2

Simpson, Alan 1

Sims, George R. 1

Siraj ud Daulah 1

smallpox 1–2

Smith, Captain Edward 1, 2

Smith, Ernie 1

Soares, Jô 1

Somerville, Mary 1

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg 1, 2

Sorrell, Martin 1

Spahovic, Smail 1

Sportsnight 1, 2

stainless steel 1–2

Stalin, Joseph 1

Stanley, Henry Morton 1

Stanley, Lord 1, 2

Starr, Edwin 1

Starr, Ringo 1

Steinbeck, John 1

Stephen of Blois 1, 2

Steptoe and Son 1–2, 3

Stevenson, Margaret 1

Straight, Michael 1

Stringfellow, John 1

Stuart, Ernest 1

Suffragette movement 1–2

sugar 1, 2–3

Symons, George 1, 2

T

Tandey, Private Henry 1–2

Tankosić, Vojislav 1

Temperley, Harold 1

Thackerey, William Makepeace 1

Thatcher, Margaret 1

Theatre Royal, Exeter 1–2

Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury 1

Theobald of Blois 1

Thompson, Robert 1, 2

Titanic 1–2

toasted sandwich maker 1–2

Tomorrow’s World 1–2

Tryggvason, Olaf 1–2, 3, 4

Turing, Alan 1, 2

tyres 1–2

V

vaccinations 1–2

Vaughan, Ivan 1, 2

Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1

Victoria, Queen 1

Vigilancia 1–2

Vignerot du Plessis, Louis François Armand de 1–2

vulcanised rubber 1

W

Walker, John 1–2

Wallace, Alfred Russel 1

Walpole, Sir Robert 1

War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48) 1, 2

War of Jenkins’ Ear (1739–48) 1–2

Watt, James 1

Wedgwood II, Josiah 1

Weidmann, Captain 1

Wenner, Jann 1

White, Dick 1, 2

White Star Line 1–2

Wilde, Henry Tingle 1

Wilhelm I, Kaiser 1

William the Conqueror 1, 2

William Rufus 1

Wilson, C. Anne 1

Wilson, Harold 1–2, 3

Wilson, Woodrow 1, 2–3

Wingate, Sir Francis 1

Women’s Social and Political Union 1

World Health Organisation (WHO) 1

World Wide Web 1

World Wildlife Fund 1

Wren, Christopher 1–2

Wünsche, Oberleutnant Otto 1, 2

Y

Young, Edward 1

Z

Žerajić, Bogdan 1