Table Of Content
The Hutchinson Illustrated Encyclopedia of
British History
Preface
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Table of contents
A
abdication crisis
Abercromby, Ralph
Aberdare, Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron
Aberdeen (codename)
Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
Abhorrer
Abinger, James Scarlett
abjuration, oath of
abjuration of the realm
abolitionism
Abraham-man
Achurch, Janet
Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg
Adams, Truda
Addington, Henry, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
Addled Parliament
Adelaide (Queen consort)
Admiralty, Board of the
Adrian IV
Afghan Wars
agrarian revolution
agricultural revolution
agriculture, 19th-century British
agriculture, medieval
Airy, Anna
Albany, Alexander Stewart, 3rd Duke of
Albany, John Stewart, 4th Duke of
Albany, Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of
Albert, Prince Consort
Albion
Alcock, John William
Alexander
Alexander I (of Scotland)
Alexander II (of Scotland)
Alexander III (of Scotland)
Alexander of Hillsborough, Albert Victor Alexander
Alexander 'the Magnificent'
Alexandra (Queen consort)
Alfred the Great
Aliens Act
Allen, William
Alliance, the
allodium
All the Talents, Ministry of
Alnwick Castle
Amery, Leo(pold Charles Maurice Stennett)
Amherst, William Pitt
Amiens, peace of
ancient demesne
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Anderson shelter
André, John
angel (coin)
Angell, (Ralph) Norman
Angle
Anglesey, Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
Anglo-Irish Agreement
Anglo–Irish relations
Anglo-Irish Treaty
Anglo-Irish War
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anne
Anne of Bohemia
Anne of Cleves
Anne of Denmark
Annesley, James
Anning, Mary
Anson, George
Anti-Corn Law League
Antrim, Randal Macdonnell
Anwykyll, John
Apostles
Aquinas, St Thomas
Aram, Eugene
Arbroath, Declaration of
Arcadia conference
Arch, Joseph
Arctic convoys
Argyll
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll
Argyll, Archibald Campbell
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl and 2nd Marquess of Argyll
Argyll, John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
Argyll, George John Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
Arkwright, Richard
Arlington, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington
Arminianism
Armitage, Edward
Armstrong, Henry Edward
Arnold, Joseph
Arran, James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran
Arran, James Stewart, Earl of Arran
Arras, Battle of (World War II)
array, commission of
Arthur
Arthur, Duke of Brittany
Arthur, Prince of Wales
Articles, Lords of
Arundel, Thomas Howard
Ascham, Roger
Ashanti Wars
Ashby, Margery Irene
Ashingdon, Battle of
Ashley, Jack
Ashmole, Elias
Ashmolean Museum
Aske, Robert
Askew, Anne
Askey, Arthur
Aspinall, John Audley Frederick
Asquith, Herbert Henry
Association, the
Astley, Jacob
Astley, Philip
Astor
Astor, Nancy
Astor, Waldorf, 2nd Viscount Astor of Cliveden
atheling
Athelney, Isle of
Athelstan
Athlone, Alexander (Augustus Frederick William Alfred George)
Atkins, Anna
Atlantic triangle
Atrebates
ATS
attainder, bill of
Atterbury, Francis
Attlee, Clement (Richard)
Attwood, Thomas (politician)
Auckland, George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland
Audley, Thomas
Aughrim, Battle of
Augmentation, Court of
Auld Alliance
Aungerville, Richard
auxiliary territorial service
Avebury
Avebury, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Awdry, W(ilbert) V(ere)
axe factories
Aylmer, Felix Edward
Aymer de Valence (bishop)
Aymer de Valence (nobleman)
Ayres, John
Ayscough, William
Ayscue, George
B
Babington, Anthony
Back, George
Back to Basics
Backwell, Edward
Bacon, Francis (politician)
Bacon, Nicholas
Baddeley, Sophia
Baedeker raids
Bagehot, Walter
Bagimond's Roll
Bagot, Charles
Baillie, Robert
Baillie, Robert, of Jerviswood
Baird, David
Baker, Henry
Bakewell, Robert
Baldwin, Stanley
Balfour, James, of Pittendreich
Balfour Declaration
Baliol, John de
Ball, Albert
Ball, Alexander John
ballot act
Balmerino, James Elphinstone, 1st Baron
Balnaves, Henry, of Halhill
Bannockburn, Battle of
barbarian conspiracy
Barber, Anthony Perrinott Lysberg
Barebones Parliament
Barham, Charles Middleton, 1st Baron
Barnes, (Alice) Josephine (Mary Taylor)
Barnes, George Nicoll
Barnet, Battle of
baronage
Barons' War (1264–67)
Barons' Wars
Barrington, Jonah
Bart, Lionel
Barton, Elizabeth
bastide
Battenberg, (Mountbatten) Prince Louis Alexander
Beachy Head, Battle of
Beaconsfield (title)
beadle
Beale, Mary
Beaton, David
Beaufort, Henry
Beaufort, Margaret
Beaumaris
Beaumont, Agnes
Beaverbrook, (William) Max(well) Aitken
Becket, St Thomas à
Bede
bedel
Bee, St
Bek, Antony
Bekynton, Thomas
Belknap, Robert
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bell, Andrew
Beloff, Max, Baron Beloff
Benbow, John
benefit of clergy
Bennett, Jill
Bentinck, Lord (William) George (Frederick Cavendish)
Bentinck, Lord William Henry Cavendish
Beresford, Charles William de la Poer
Berkeley, William
Bermingham
Berry, Edward
Berwick, James Fitzjames, 1st Duke of Berwick
Berwick, treaties of
Bessemer, Henry
Bevan, Aneurin (Nye)
Beveridge, William Henry
Beveridge Report, the
Bevin, Ernest
Bianconi, Charles (Carlo)
Biggs, Ronald
Billington-Greig, Teresa
Bill of Rights (English)
Birkbeck, George
Birkenhead, F(rederick) E(dwin) Smith
Birkett, (William) Norman
Bishops' Wars
Black, Clementina Maria
Black and Tans
Blackburn, Helen
Black Prince
Blackwood, Henry
Blair, Tony
Blake, George (spy)
Blake, Robert
blanketeers
Blenheim, Battle of
Bligh, William
Blitz, the
Blood, Thomas
Bloody Assizes
Bloody Sunday
Blount, Charles
blue books
Blunt, Anthony Frederick
Boadicea
Bodichon, Barbara
Bodley, Thomas
Boleyn, Anne
Bolingbroke
Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Bonar Law
Bondfield, Margaret Grace
Bonham-Carter, (Helen) Violet
Boniface of Savoy
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Booth, Catherine
Booth, Charles
Booth, William
Boothby, Robert John Graham
Borlase, William
Boscawen, Edward
Bosworth, Battle of
Bothwell, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
Boucicault, Nina
Boudicca
Bounty, Mutiny on the
Bourchier, Thomas
Bow Street Runners
Boycott, Charles Cunningham
Boyle, Richard
Boyle, Roger
Boyne, Battle of the
Braddock, Elizabeth Margaret (Bessie)
Bradlaugh, Charles
Bradshaw, John
Brady, Ian
Brant, Joseph
Breakspear, Nicholas
Brendan, St
Brent-Dyer, (Gladys) Elinor M(ay)
Brett, Jeremy
Bretwalda
Brian Bóruma
Bright, John
Brighton Pavilion
Brindley, James
Britain
Britain, ancient
Britain, Battle of
Britannia
British East India Company
British Empire
British Empire (World War I)
British Empire, Order of the
British Museum
broad church
Broadway (codename)
Brooke, James
Brookeborough, Basil Stanlake Brooke
Brougham, Henry Peter
Brown, (James) Gordon
Brown, George Alfred
Brown, John (Scottish aide)
Brown, William
Browne, George, Count de Browne
Bruce, Robert
Bruce, Robert de
Brummell, Beau (George Bryan)
Bryce, James
B-Specials
Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Bull, Phil
Bull, John (imaginary figure)
Buller, Redvers Henry
Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina, Baroness Burdett-Coutts
Burgess, Guy Francis de Moncy
Burgh, Hubert de
Burghley, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Burke, Edmund
Burke, John Bernard
Burnham, Harry Lawson-Webster Levy-Lawson
Burns, John Elliot
Burton, Beryl
Bute, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
Butler, Eleanor
Butler, Elizabeth Southerden
Butler, Josephine Elizabeth
Butler, Richard Austen
Butler, William Francis
Butler of Saffron Walden, Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
Butlers of Ormond
Butt, Isaac
Buxton, Thomas Fowell
Byng, George
Byng, John
Byron, Annabella
C
Cabal, the
Cade, Jack
Cadwalader
Cadwallon
Caernarfon
Caledonia
Callaghan, (Leonard) James
Calvert, George, 1st Baron Baltimore
Camden, William
Camelot
Cameron, John
Campbell, Colin
Campbell, John, 1st Baron Campbell
Campbell-Bannerman, Henry
Campion, Edmund
Canning, Charles John
Canning, George
Canning, Stratford
Canterbury
Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury Tales, The
Canute
Caractacus
Caradon, Baron
Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of
Cardwell, Edward, 1st Viscount Cardwell
Carey, James
Caroline of Brunswick
Carpenter, Alfred Francis
Carpenter, Mary
Carrington, Dora (de Houghton)
Carson, Edward Henry
Carteret, John, 1st Earl Granville
Carteret, Sir George
Cartwright, Edmund
Casement, Roger David
Cassivelaunus
Castanheda, Fernão Lopes de
Castle, Barbara Anne
Castlemaine, Countess of
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart
Cat and Mouse Act
Catesby, Robert
Catherine of Aragón
Catherine of Braganza
Catherine of Valois
Catholic Emancipation
Cato Street Conspiracy
Cattle Acts
Catuvellauni
cavalier
Cavell, Edith (Louisa)
Cavendish, Lord Frederick Charles
Cavendish, Spencer
Cavendish, William
Cawley, William
Cecil, Edgar Algernon Robert
Cecil, Robert
Cecil, William
Central Treaty Organization
ceorl
Cerdic
Chadwick, Edwin
Chadwick, Helen
Chain, Ernst Boris
Chain Home
chamberlain
Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville
Chamberlain, (Joseph) Austen
Chamberlain, Joseph
Chandos
Chandos, Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
Charge of the Light Brigade
charity schools
Charles
Charles I (of Great Britain and Ireland)
Charles II (of Great Britain and Ireland)
Charles Edward Stuart
Charles Fort
Charrington, Frederick Nicholas
charter
charters, town
Chartism
Chaucer, Geoffrey
