Integrated Illustrations
p. 21 Page from Beowulf. The Granger Collection/Topfoto.
p. 23 Silver penny of Alfred. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
p. 27 Page from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. © The British Library Board/HIP/TopFoto.
p. 32 Seal of William the Conqueror. © The British Library Board/HIP/TopFoto.
p. 35 Page from the Domesday Book. Getty Images.
p. 55 Section of the Statute of Rhuddlan. The National Archives, London. E175/11/5 (6).
pp. 68–9 Chapel of King’s College Cambridge. Getty Images.
p. 89 Frontispiece to the Book of Common Prayer. akg-images/De Agostini Picture.
p. 97 Scene from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library.
p. 99 Thomas Cranmer. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
p. 104 Casket letter. The National Archives, London. SP53/2 (65).
p. 110 Page from My Ladye Nevells Booke. © The British Library Board.
p. 118 Workhouse. Getty Images.
p. 121 Gunpowder plotters. © Topfoto.
p. 130 Frontispiece to Shakespeare’s First Folio. ©The British Library Board.
pp. 134–5 The Petition of Right. Parliamentary Archives, London. HL/PO/PU/1/1627/3C1n2 (1628).
p. 149 Execution of Charles I. British Museum, London, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library.
p. 159 Ben Israel’s petition. The National Archives, London. SP 18/125 folio 173.
p. 166 Earl of Clarendon. Topfoto.
p. 174 Declaration of Rights. Topfoto.
p. 183 Bank of England. Getty Images.
p. 199 Samuel Johnson. The Granger Collection/Topfoto.
p. 206 Plan for Edinburgh’s New Town. © National Library of Scotland.
p. 210 Arkwright’s water frame patent. © Science Museum/Science & Society.
p. 217 Adam Smith. HIP/Topfoto.
pp. 222–23 First edition of The Times. © NI Syndication.
p. 233 Mary Wollstonecraft. Getty Images.
p. 240 Dublin Castle. © Lordprice Collection/Alamy.
p. 243 Enclosure map. Northamptonshire Record Office. Plan no. 34.
p. 247 James Gillray. Getty Images.
p. 250 Sketch of Rocket. © Science Museum/Science & Society.
p. 256 duke of Wellington. Topfoto.
p. 259 Charles Grey. Getty Images.
p. 266 People’s Charter. Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library.
p. 271 Paddle engines from SS Great Britain. © Science Museum/Science & Society.
p. 276 Illustration from A Christmas Carol. The Granger Collection/Topfoto.
p. 278 Crystal Palace. V & A Images.
p. 290 Charles Booth. Mansell/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images.
p. 297 Cartoon of the Entente. Getty Images.
p. 306 Suffragette Punch cartoon. © Punch Limited/TopFoto.
p. 318 Page from the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Getty Images.
p. 321 Michael Collins. Getty Images.
p. 327 John Reith. © BBC/Corbis.
p.336 Spitfire Type 300. Solent Sky Museum.
p. 338 Spitfire Mk I. Aeroplane Monthly.
p. 331 Edward VIII’s Instrument of Abdication, 1938. The National Archives, London. PC 11/1.
p. 340 Munich agreement. Topfoto.
p. 341 Neville Chamberlain. Getty Images.
p. 348 Bomb damage. J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.
p. 351 Page from the script for Brief Encounter. BFI special collections/The David Lean Foundation.
p. 353 Brief Encounter film still. Topfoto.
p. 356 Empire Windrush passenger list. The National Archives, London/HIP/TopFoto.
p. 359 Ernest Bevin. AFP/AFP/Getty Images.
p. 371 Ian Fleming. Horst Tappe/Getty Images.
p. 387 Commemorative postage stamp. Courtesy of Mark Hawkins-Dady.
p. 395 Brian Faulkner and Liam Cosgrove. Dennis Oulds/Getty Images.
p. 401 Michael Foot and Margaret Thatcher. ©PA Photos/Topfoto.
p. 409 Diana Princess of Wales. Tim Graham/Getty Images.
p. 417 Tony Blair and George W. Bush. Getty Images.
Page from the Lindisfarne Gospels. © The British Library Board/HIP/TopFoto.
Bayeux Tapestry. akg-images/Erich Lessing.
Magna Carta. © The British Library Board/HIP/TopFoto.
Map of Great Britain from Abbreviatio Chronicorum Angliae. © The British Library Board.
Second Picture Section
Founder’s Charter upon Act of Parliament. The Master and Fellows of King’s College, Cambridge.
Mary Rose from the Anthony Roll. The Art Archive/Magdalene College Cambridge/Eileen Tweedy.
Monteagle Letter and Guy Fawkes’s Confession. The National Archives, London. SP14/216 (11a).
Union Flag design. © National Library of Scotland.
Scottish National Covenant. © National Library of Scotland.
Third Picture Section
Death Warrant of Charles I. Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library.
Act of Union. SCOTLANDSIMAGES.COM/Crown Copyright 2007/The National Archives of Scotland.
The Plum-Pudding in Danger. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-8791.
Poverty map of London. Atlantic Books Collection.
Fourth Picture Section
War recruitment poster. The Granger Collection/Topfoto.
British Empire map. The Art Archive/Lords Gallery/Eileen Tweedy.
London Blitz damage map. The City of London, London Metropolitan Archives.
Sgt. Pepper album cover. © Apple Corps Ltd.
The Dodi and Diana condolence book at Harrods. Courtesy of Harrods.