LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Integrated Illustrations

p. 10 Tablet from Vindolanda. © British Museum and Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents. 85.032.a.

p. 21 Page from Beowulf. The Granger Collection/Topfoto.

p. 23 Silver penny of Alfred. © The Trustees of the British Museum.

p. 24 Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum. The Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Ms 383 f.57r-v.

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. 48 Frontispiece to Historia Anglorum. British Library, MS Royal 14.C.VII, folio 6r. © 2010 The British Library Board.

pp. 52–3 Writ and return from Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. The National Archives, London. C219-1-1(1).

p. 55 Section of the Statute of Rhuddlan. The National Archives, London. E175/11/5 (6).

p. 64 John Wyclif. TopFoto.

pp. 68–9 Chapel of King’s College Cambridge. Getty Images.

p. 77 Page from Tyndale’s New Testament. © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/The Bridgeman Art Library.

p. 81 Henry VIII. Topfoto.

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. 127 Frontispiece to the King James Bible. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.

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. 196 Words and music to ‘God Save the King’. The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. A7. 269, Oct, 1745, p.552.

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. 275 Manuscript page of A Christmas Carol. Photo Pierpont Morgan Library/Art Resource/Scala, Florence.

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. 304 Fourteen Reasons for Supporting Women’s Suffrage. Cambridgeshire County Archives. Ref. 550/Q16.

p. 306 Suffragette Punch cartoon. © Punch Limited/TopFoto.

p. 313 Sidney Webb. 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. 372 Page from the original manuscript of Casino Royale. Reproduced by kind permission of the Ian Fleming Will Trust. Image © Ian Fleming Will Trust.

p. 376 Page from the Sèvres Protocol. The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. MS. Eng. c. 6168, fols. 1–3.

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.

First Picture Section

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.

Declaration of Arbroath. SCOTLANDSIMAGES.COM/Crown Copyright 2007. The National Archives of Scotland.

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.