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Remember, remember (the fifth of November): everything you've ever wanted to know about British history with all the boring bits taken out
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Delacorte Press
Publication Date
c2009
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English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Editors' Introduction and Acknowledgments
Time Line
List of Monarchs
Roman Britain
The Roman Invasion
The Founding of Londinium
Queen Boudicca
Hadrian's Wall
Saint Alban
Constantine the Great
The Decline of the Romans
The Dark Ages
The Advent of the Saxons
Saint Patrick
Saint Augustine of Canterbury
The Venerable Bede
Offa, the First "King of All England"
The Vikings
Alfred the Great
Ethelred the Unready
King Canute
Edward the Confessor
The Battle of Hastings
The Late Middle Ages
The Tower of London
The Domesday Book
The First Crusade
Henry II and the Angevin Empire
The Murder of Thomas a Becket
Richard I "The Lionhear"
King John
Magna Carta
Edward I and the Rise of Parliament
Sir William Wallace
Robert the Bruce
The Hundred Years War, Part I
The Battle of Crecy
The Black Death
The Peasants' Revolt
John Wycliffe's Bible and the Lollard Movement
The Hundred Years War, Part 2
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
William Caxton
The Wars of the Roses
Richard III
The Renaissance
Tudor Britain
Henry VIII
The Reformation
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
Lady Jane Grey, Queen for Nine Days
Mary I (Bloody Mary)
The Counter-Reformation
Elizabeth I
Mary, Queen of Scots
Sir Francis Drake
The Spanish Armada
William Shakespeare
The British East India Company
Stuart Britain
James VI of Scotland and I of England
The Gunpowder Plot
The King James Bible
The Pilgrim Fathers and the Mayflower
The Founding of New York
Charles I
The Civil Wars
Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth
The Restoration of the Monarchy
The Great Plague and the Great Fire of London
Titus Oates and the Popish Plot
James II, the Last Catholic King
The Monmouth or Pitchfork Rebellion
The Glorious Revolution
The Union of England and Scotland
Marlborough's Victories
Georgian Britain
George I
Penal Colonies in America and Australia
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Victories
George III, Patriot King
The Enlightenment
The Industrial Revolution, Part I: From Rural to Urban
The Boston Tea Party
The American War of Independence
The French Revolutionary Wars
The Union with Ireland Act
The Napoleonic Wars
Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar
The Abolition of the Slave Trade
The Luddites
The Regency
Wellington and the Battle of Waterloo
The Peterloo Massacre
George IV
Robert Peel and the Metropolitan Police
The Great Reform Act
Victorian Britain
Queen Victoria
Disraeli and Gladstone
The Industrial Revolution, Part 2: The Cost to Society
Victorian Arts and Literature
Income Tax
The Irish Potato Famine
Victorian Explorers and Inventors
The Great Exhibition
The Crimean War
The Indian Mutiny
Charles Darwin
Joseph Lister
The Irish Land Act
Britain's Colonial Wars
Education for All
Gordon at Khartoum
The First Boer War
The Second Boer War
The Issue of Home Rule for Ireland
Edwardian Britain
Edward VII
The Rise of Labour
The Suffragettes
The Sinking of the Titanic
The First World War Years
The First World War
The Sinking of the Lusitania
The Easter Rising
The Battle of the Somme
David Lloyd George
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
The Treaty of Versailles
The Interwar Years
The Amritsar Massacre, India
The British Commonwealth
Palestine and Mesopotamia
The Partition of Ireland
The General Strike
Ramsay MacDonald
Women's Suffrage
Fleming Discovers Penicillin
Edward VIII and the Abdication
George VI
Sir Oswald Mosley and the Fascists
Munich and the Lead-in to the Second World War
The Second World War
Germany Invades
Sir Winston Churchill
War in the Air
War at Sea
America Enters the War
Bletchley Park and Enigma
The D Day Landings and VE Day
Victory over Japan and the End of the Second World War
The Founding of the United Nations
Further Reading
Index
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9780385343640
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