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Cover Title Copyright Contents Introduction Map of The British Isles Chronology Part One: Ancient & Dark Age Britain, 55 BC–AD 1066

Introduction Julius Caesar Invades Britain, 55 BC A Chariot Fight, 55 BC The Britons, 54 BC The Romans Massacre the Druids, AD 61 Boudicca Revolts, AD 61 Graffiti, c. AD 100–300 “The Ruin of Britain”: The Angles and Saxons Arrive in the Isles, c. AD 456 Instructions on Converting the Pagans, AD 601 King Edwin of Northumbria is Converted to Christianity, c. AD 625 The Synod of Whitby, AD 664 The Sins of King Aethelbald, AD 747 The Vikings Raid Britain, AD 787–93 The Viking Invasion: Alfred Saves England, AD 871–878 The Dooms of Alfred, c. AD 885–890 The First Candle Clock, AD 887 A Charm For Stomache-Ache, c. AD 900 The Vikings Martyr Archbishop Aelfheah, 1012 Canute and the Waves, c. 1030 Devils Take the Witch of Berkeley’S Soul, 1065 The Norman Invasion, September–October 1066

Part Two: The Medieval Era, 1067–1485

Introduction Famine in England, 1068–70 The Sack of Peterborough, 2 June 1070 The Domesday Inquisition, 1086 The Domesday Book: The Assessment of Canons of Herefordshire, 1086 A Reckoning of William the Conqueror on His Death, 1087 The Death of William Rufus, 2 August 1100 The Cistercians, c. 1130 The Anarchy of the Barons, 1137–54 The Green Children, c. 1145 A Portrait of Henry Ii, 1154–89 Heretics Beaten, Oxford, 1166 The Duty of a Knight, c. 1170 The Murder of Thomas À Becket, Canterbury, 29 December 1170 A Picture of London, c. 1173 The Character & Customs of the Welsh, c. 1188 Beavers on the River Teifi, Wales 1188 The Coronation of Richard I, 5 July 1189 The Laws of Richard I Concerning Crusaders Who Were to Go By Sea, 1189 The Third Crusade; Richard I Massacres Mussulman Prisoners, Acre, 2–20 August 1191 Londoners Riot Against the Talliage Tax, 1194 A Boxing Day Affray, 1197 The Winning of the Magna Carta, 1215 The Weather, 1236 Castration of a Knight, 1248 Violent Deaths, England, 1267–87 Misadventures in Childhood, London, 1301–1337 The Execution of William Wallace, 23 August 1305 The Battle of Bannockburn, 24 June 1314 A Baker’S Tricks, 1327 The Battle of Crecy, France, 26 September 1346 The Black Death, 1348–1350 Flagellents, London, Michaelmas, 1349 The Surgeon’S Code of Ethics, c. 1360 The Peasant’S Life, c. 1362 Fraudulent Beggers, London 1380 The Peasants’ Revolt, May–June 1381 Excommunication of Boys For Playing Ball in St Paul’S Cathedral, 1385 The Duties of a Villein, c. 1386 A Complaint Against Pets in the Nunnery, England, 1387 The Capture and Imprisonment of Richard II, 1399 The English Longbow Wins the Battle of Agincourt, France, 25 October, 1415 Recipes, 1420–1450 The Coronation Feast of Henry Vi, 1429 The Hundred Years War: “Hear the Words of the Maid”, 22 March 1429 How to Prepare the Master’S Bath, c. 1460 The Wars of the Roses: Margaret D’Anjou Flees the Yorkists, 1463 A German at the Court of Edward Iv, 1466 A Valentine, February 1477 Richard III Murders the Princes in the Tower, 1483 The Battle of Bosworth, 22 August 1485

Part Three: The Tudors & the Stuarts, 1486–1688

Introduction The Pretence of Perkin Warbeck, 1498 A Portrait of Henry Viii, 1519 The Magnificence of Cardinal Wolsey, c. 1525 “Mine Own Sweetheart”: Henry Viii Writes to Anne Boleyn, c. 1526 The Coronation of Anne Boleyn, 1 June 1533 Incontinent With Piss, England, c. 1535 The Reformation in England: A Visitation to the Monasteries of Buckinghamshire, Kent and Suffolk, 1535–8 The Marriage of Queen Mary and Philip II of Spain, 25 July 1554 The Martyrdom of Doctor Taylor, 1555 The Burning of Archbishop Cranmer, 21 March 1556 The Fall of Calais, 5 January 1558 Elizabeth I Rejects a Suitor, 25 February 1561 The Murder of Rizzio, Edinburgh, 9 March 1566 A Prisoner of the Inquisition, Mexico City, 1574–5 The Discovery of Virginia, 1576 The Forgotten Fart, 1580 “A Bloody and Murdering Practice”; Football, c. 1581 The Arrest of the Catholic Priest Edmund Campion, 17 July 1581 The Virtues of Tobacco, Virginia, America, 1585 Friar William Weston Dashes For the Priest-Hole, 1585 The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, Fotheringay, England, 8 February 1586 The Armada: The English Engage, 21 July 1588 The Armada: A Spanish Galleass is Attacked Off Calais, 29 July 1588 The Armada: The San Pedro Flounders in a Storm, December 1588 Housekeeping List For Christmas Week, 1594 Sir Walter Raleigh Sacks Cadiz, 1596 The Torturing of a Jesuit Priest, the Tower of London, England, April 1597 A Petition For the Suppression of Ungodly Stage-Plays, 28 July 1597 An Audience With Queen Elizabeth I, London, 8 December 1597 The Death of Queen Elizabeth I, Richmond Palace, Surrey, 24 March 1603 The Gunpowder Plot, England, 5 November 1605 A Sketch of King James, 1603–25 Treatment For the Plague, 1615 The Land and People of England, 1617 Bess Broughton Sets up For Herself, c. 1625 The Murder of the Duke of Buckingham, 23 August 1628 A Portrait of Oliver Cromwell, London, November 1640 The Attempted Arrest of the Five Members, 4 January 1642 The English Civil War: Nehemiah Wharton Skirmishes, Pillages and Starves in Warwickshire, August 1642 The English Civil War: Edgehill, 23 October 1642 The English Civil War: The Death of a Nephew at Marston Moor, Yorkshire, 1 July 1644 The English Civil War: The Execution of Charles I, London 30 January 1649 The English Civil War: The Storming of Drogheda, Ireland 10–11 September 1649 Unconsummated Child Marriage, England, 1651 Highway Robbery, Kent, England, 11 June 1652 Whale Harpooned in the Thames, 3 June 1658 The Prodigious Boyhood of Sir Isaac Newton, c. 1660 The Restoration: Charles II Returns to England, May 1660 Lost: The King’S Dog, June–July 1660 Journal of the Plague Year, 1665 The Great Fire of London, 2 September 1666 Issac Newton Experiments on Light, Cambridge, 1666 A Naval Cuckold Spared, 28 September 1675 The Great Frost, London, 1684 The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange Invades England, October–November 1688 The Glorious Revolution: James II Falls, November-December 1688

Part Four: The Age of Empire 1689–1899

Introduction The Battle of the Boyne, 1 July 1690 The Massacre of Glencoe, 13 February 1692 Trial For Witchcraft, Essex, 1699 Bath Under the Code of Beau Nash, c. 1710 Small Ad: Slave Boy For Sale, 9–11 February 1709 Bull-Baiting, 1710 Public Executions at Tyburn, c. 1725 The Leeds Cloth-Market, c. 1725 A Day at the Seaside, Brighton, 22 July 1736 John Wesley Preaches, 1742–69 Drawing the Boundaries: The Rules of Cricket, 1744 Bonnie Prince Charlie Invades Manchester, 26–29 November 1745 The Effects of an Earthquake, London, April 1750 The Black Hole of Calcutta, 21 June 1756 The Death of General Wolfe, Quebec, 13 September 1759 George II Interred, 13 November 1760 A Rake’S Progress, 1763 A Perfect Steam Engine, Scotland, c. 1765 Mozart Plays London, 1765 Captain Cook Discovers Botany Bay, Australia, April–May 1770 Boston Tea Party, America, 16 December 1773 The American War of Independence: In Action Against the British at Bunker Hill, 16–17 June 1775 Hawaiian Islanders Kill Captain Cook, 14 February 1779 The Industrial Revolution: The Mob Destroy the Machines, England, October 1779 Invention of the Power Loom, 1784 The First Aerial Voyage in England, London, 15 September 1784 Women Convicts, Port Jackson, Australia, 14 November 1788 A Meeting With Mad King George, 2 February 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty, South Pacific, 1789 The Industrial Revolution: A Scientist Against the Mob, 19 July 1791 The French Revolutionary War: “The Glorious First of June”, 1794 The French Revolutionary War: Rules on Eating For the Rich and Poor, 23 July 1795 Jenner Experiments With Vaccination, Gloucestershire, 1796 The Naval Mutiny at Spithead, April 1797 French Revolutionary War: The Attack on Tenerife, July 1797 The French Revolutionary War: The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798 Lakeland Beggars, 27 May 1800 Majestic Mountains, Serene Sky, Scoundrel Pen: Coleridge at Keswick, 25 July 1800 Wellington Meets Nelson, 10 September 1805 Fatal Duel, Plymouth, 12 October 1806 Trafalgar: The View From the Lower-Deck, 21 October 1805 Trafalgar: The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805 Plundering A Dead French Soldier, Vimeiro, 21 August 1808 London on Saturday Night (After the Partaking of Opium), c. 1812 Storming Badajoz, 6 April 1812 The War of 1812: A Reluctant Fusilier at New Orleans, 8 January 1815 Waterloo, Belgium, 18 June 1815 Climbing Boys, 1817 Peterloo, Manchester, 16 April 1819 Bill Neate V the Gas-Man, 1822 The Cremation of Shelley, Viareggio, Italy, 15 August 1822 The Qualities of a Policeman, 10 October 1829 The Industrial Revolution: The Black Country, England, 1830 First Excursion on the Liverpool–Manchester Railway, 25 August 1830 The Industrial Revolution: Child Labour in England, 1833 Initiation Into the Toll Puddle Union, Dorset, January 1834 Darwin in the Galapagos, 1835 Princess Victoria Becomes Queen, 20 June 1837 The Coronation of Queen Victoria, 28 June 1838 Prostitutes, Pimps and Peers: Scenes From London’S Demi-Monde, 1839 Women Prisoners in Newgate, 1841 A Chartist Speaks, 1842 The Industrial Revolution: The Slums of Manchester, England, 1844 The Irish Potato Famine, 1847 The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace, London, 7 June 1851 An Aerial View of London, 13 September 1852 The Battle of Balaclava: The Charge of the Light Brigade, Crimea, 25 October 1854 Discovering the Victoria Falls, Africa, 1856 Indian Mutiny: Cawnpore After the Massacre, October 1857 Explosion Aboard the SS Great Eastern, 12 September 1859 Below Stairs, 1864 Easter Sunday in the Country, Clyro, Wales, 17 April 1870 Meeting Livingstone, Ujiji, Africa, 10 November 1871 Captain Webb’S Channel Swim, 25 August 1875 Rorke’S Drift, 21 January 1879 The 1882 Cup Final Wilde Romps With His Children, c. 1892 The Diamond Jubilee, 1897 Omdurman, 2 September 1898 “After the Manner of His Race”: The Funeral of Gordon, Khartoum, September 1898

Part Five: Modern Times, 1900–2001

Introduction The Boer War: Skirmish at Kari Siding, 29 March 1900 The Boer War: The Seige of Mafeking, Cape Province, South Africa, April–May 1900 Queen Victoria’S Funeral CortÈGe, 1 February 1901 The First Radio Signal Across the Atlantic, Canada, 12 December 1901 Home Sweet Home, Salford, c. 1907 Blériot Flies the Channel, 25 July 1909 Force-Feeding of a Suffragette, Walton, 18 January 1910 The Arrest of Dr H. H. Crippen, 31 July 1910 The Tonypandy Riot, South Wales, November 1910 Antartic Expedition: The Final Diaries and Letters of Captain R. F. Scott, January 1912 The Titanic Sinks, 15 April 1912 A Suffragette Commits Suicide at the Derby, England, 1913 Britain Declares War, 4 August 1914 Joining Up, Autumn 1914 “The Tommy” Christmas in the Trenches, Western Front, 1914 Zeppelin Raid on London, Summer 1915 An Anzac at Gallipoli, July–August 1915 The Easter Rising: The Commander’S Proclamation, 28 April 1916 The Somme, July 1916 A Tank Charge, the Somme, 15 September 1916 Over the Top: High Wood, 15 September 1916 A Firing Squad at Dawn, Western Front, 1917 Entry Into Damascus, 1 October 1918 Armistice Day in London, 11 November 1918 The Signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919 The Publication of Ulysses, February 1922 Tutankhamen’S Tomb is Opened, Luxor, Egypt, 16 February 1923 The General Strike, May 1926 I Watch Television, London, 1 August 1928 Sir Malcolm Campbell Breaks the Land Speed Record, Daytona Beach, 22 February 1933 The Gresford Colliery Disaster, Wrexham, 22 September 1934 The Battle of Cable Street, London, 7 October 1936 The Jarrow March, October 1936 A British Socialist in the Spanish Civil War, January 1937 The House of Commons Discusses War and Peace, London, 2 September 1939 The Royal Oak is Torpedoed, Scapa Flow, 13 October 1939 Churchill Takes Over, 13 May 1940 Dunkirk: The View From the Beaches, 30 May 1940 Dunkirk: The View From the Boats, 1 June 1940 The Battle of Britain, September 1940 The Blitz, London, September-November 1940 The Home Front: A Child’S View, Sheffield, Autumn 1940 The Sinking of Repulse and Prince of Wales, 10 December 1941 The Home Front: The Great Man Chase, December 1941 El Alamein, October-November 1942 The Dambusters Raid, Ruhr Valley, 16 May 1943 The Railway of Death, Burma, May 1943 Cassino: The End, 16–18 May 1944 D-Day: 6 June 1944 Invasion of Normandy, 6–24 June 1944 “Doodlebugs” Land on London, July 1944 A Visit to Belsen Death Camp, Germany, 19 April 1945 Victory in Europe Celebrations, London, 8 May 1945 The Grand National, Aintree, 29 March 1947 The Korean War: Lieutenant Philip Curtis Wins the Victoria Cross, Imjin River, N. Korea 22 April 1951 The Great Tide at Jaywick, 31 January 1953 Conquering Everest, Himalayas, 29 May 1953 Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile, Oxford, 6 May 1954 The Suez Invasion, Egypt, 5–6 November 1956 Surburban Life, 1959 Profumo Meets Keeler, Clivedon, July 1961 Cassius Clay Beats Henry Cooper in the Fifth, London, 19 June 1963 The Beatles Take New York, 7 February 1964 The Killing of George Cornell at the Blind Begger Public House, London, 9 March 1966 England Win the World Cup, London, 30 July 1966 “Bloody Sunday” in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 30 January 1972 The Sex Pistols Play Their First Concert, London, 6 November 1975 The Sas Relieve the Seige at Prince’S Gate, London, 5 May 1980 The Falklands War: The First Man Into Port Stanley, 14 June 1982 “We Have Only to be Lucky Once”: The Brighton Bombing, 12 October 1984 Rampage, Hungerford, 19 August 1987 The Gulf War: The Bombing of Baghdad, 17 January 1991 The Body of Diana, Princess of Wales, is Flown Home, Raf Northolt, England, 31 August 1997 766.609 Mph: British Jet-Car Sets Land Speed Record, Black Rock Desert, Nevada, Usa, 15 October 1997 Total Eclipse, England, 11 August 1999

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