The story of Britain
Dillon, Patrick, 1962-2010
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A comprehensive history of Britain that delves into some edgy and less well-known events, this book covers everything from William the Conqueror's arrival in 1066 to the Battle of Britain
Main title:
The story of Britain / by Patrick Dillon
Author:
Dillon, Patrick, 1962-Lynch, Patrick James, illustrator
Imprint:
London Walker 2010
Collation:
340 p. colour illustrations maps
Audience:
Upper primarySecondary
Contents:
Timeline -- The Middle Ages: The Norman conquest - Domesday Book - The white ship - Matilda - England's neighbours -The king and the Archbishop - Richard the Lionheart and the Crusades - John Lackland and Robin Hood - Magna Carta - Simon de Montfort and Parliament - Wool - Edward Longshanks - The expulsion of the Jews - Braveheart - Robert Bruce, king of Scotland - Edward II and Piers Gaveston - Isabella and Mortimer - The Hundred Years War - The Black Prince - The peasants' revolt - The Canterbury Tales - Owain Glyn Dwr's rebellion - Agincourt - The Wars of the Roses - The princes in the Tower - Richard's downfall - The end of the Middle Ages - Timeline -- The Tudors: Henry VII - James IV of Scotland - Cardinal Wolsey - The Reformation - The King's great matter - The dissolution of the monasteries - Henry's wives - The stripping of the altars - The nine days Queen - Bloody Mary - The Spanish Armada - War in Ireland - Elizabeth's explorers - Merchants - 'All the world's a stage' - Timeline -- The Stuarts: Britain united - The Gunpowder Plot - The Mayflower - The troubles of King Charles I - The first civil war - The second civil war - The King's death - Britain without a King - Lord Protector - The year of chaos - The Restoration - Scientists - Plague - The Great Fire - The Dutch Wars- The exclusion crisis - Huguenots - The glorious revolution - Toleration - Timeline -- The Georgians: Slavery - The union of England and Scotland - Marlborough's War - A king from Germany - The South Sea bubble - Aristocrats - Stand and deliver - Bonnie Prince Charlie - Rule Britannia! - India - Captain Cook - The American Revolution - The Scottish Enlightenment - The madness of George III - The French Revolution - The Irish Rebellion - Napoleon Bonaparte - Napoleon's mistake - The Battle of Waterloo - The end of the slave trade - The Romantics - Timeline -- The Victorians: Being British - The Peterloo Massacre - Daniel O'Connell - The Great Reform Act - The Industrial Revolution - Railways - Life in the factories - Unions - Better lives - The Great Exhibition - The Charge of the Light Brigade - Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole - The Indian Mutiny - Queen Empress - The Irish Famine - Home rule for Ireland - Chartists and communists - 'Change is inevitable' - Suffragettes - The Edwardians - Timeline -- The Twentieth Century: Germany - The Great War - Life in the trenches - The end of the war - The Jazz Age - War in Ireland - The Russian Revolution - The general strike - The Great Depression - The Nazis - Hitler and Germany - The Second World War begins - Dunkirk - The Battle of Britain - The Blitz - Life in the war - The allies - War all over the world - The Holocaust - The war in the West - D-Day - The nuclear bomb - The welfare state - The end of the empire - The Cold War - The sixties - Britain in trouble - Immigration - A new start - What next? - Timeline -- Kings and queens in Britain and Ireland since 1066 -- Maps: The Norman Invasion - The Armada - The Civil war battles - Slavery - The British empire in 1900 - The Great War - The D-Day landings
ISBN:
9781406311921 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941 STO
Local class:
941
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
72912
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 941 STO | Available |
| St Marys | Nonfiction | 941 STO | Available |