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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 / Judy Parkinson.

DA34 .P37 2009

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Parkinson, Judy.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: History.; Great Britain--History--Chronology.; Great Britain.; Great Britain--History--Outlines, syllabi, etc.
Genre:: Outlines and syllabi.; Chronologies.
Physical Description:: 192 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition:: First edition.
Place of Publication:: New York : Delacorte Press, [2009]
Summary:: From Civil Wars to World Wars, From the Black Death to the Bard to the Blitz, here is the Sweeping Saga of the Storied History of Britain in Bite-Size Chunks; Was Bloody Mary the same as Mary, Queen of Scots? How many King Henrys were there-and which was which? Who won the Wars of the Roses-and why does it matter, anyway? From the darkest days of the Hundred Years' War to the brutal religious battles of the sixteenth century to the eponymous age of Queen Victoria-on whose empire the sun never set-Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) captures the scope of British history from the Roman invasion to the end of World War II: a drama of blood, death, love, sex, and betrayal. And it does so in 150 concise, accessible, and highly entertaining entries. It's the perfect quick refresher for all the things we learned in school but may have forgotten since.; For lovers of all things British and for anyone who wants to know more about the country that once ruled America, here is an exciting, galloping tour of the rich, extraordinary story of Britain.; *November 5, 1605, is the notorious date when Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, allegedly attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
Contents:: Roman Britain; The Roman Invasion 26; The Founding of Londinium 27; Queen Boudicca 28; Hadrian's Wall 29; Saint Alban 30; Constantine the Great 31; The Decline of the Romans 32; The Dark Ages; The Advent of the Saxons 34; Saint Patrick 35; Saint Augustine of Canterbury 36; The Venerable Bede 37; Offa, the First "King of All England" 38; The Vikings 39; Alfred the Great 40; Ethelred the Unready 41; King Canute 42; Edward the Confessor 43; The Battle of Hastings 44; The Late Middle Ages; The Tower of London 46; The Domesday Book 47; The First Crusade 48; Henry II and the Angevin Empire 49; The Murder of Thomas a Becket 50; Richard I "The Lionhear" 51; King John 52; Magna Carta 53; Edward I and the Rise of Parliament 54; Sir William Wallace 55; Robert the Bruce 56; The Hundred Years War, Part I 57; The Battle of Crecy 58; The Black Death 59; The Peasants' Revolt 60; John Wycliffe's Bible and the Lollard Movement 61; The Hundred Years War, Part 2 62; Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales 63; William Caxton 64; The Wars of the Roses 65; Richard III 66; The Renaissance 67; Tudor Britain; Henry VIII 70; The Reformation 71; The Dissolution of the Monasteries 72; Lady Jane Grey, Queen for Nine Days 73; Mary I (Bloody Mary) 74; The Counter-Reformation 75; Elizabeth I 76; Mary, Queen of Scots 77; Sir Francis Drake 78; The Spanish Armada 79; William Shakespeare 80; The British East India Company 81; Stuart Britain; James VI of Scotland and I of England 84; The Gunpowder Plot 85; The King James Bible 86; The Pilgrim Fathers and the Mayflower 87; The Founding of New York 88; Charles I 89; The Civil Wars 90; Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth 91; The Restoration of the Monarchy 92; The Great Plague and the Great Fire of London 93; Titus Oates and the Popish Plot 94; James II, the Last Catholic King 95; The Monmouth or Pitchfork Rebellion 96; The Glorious Revolution 97; The Union of England and Scotland 98; Marlborough's Victories 99; Georgian Britain; George I 102; Penal Colonies in America and Australia 103; Bonnie Prince Charlie 104; Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Victories 105; George III, Patriot King 106; The Enlightenment 107; The Industrial Revolution, Part I: From Rural to Urban 108; The Boston Tea Party 109; The American War of Independence 110; The French Revolutionary Wars 111; The Union with Ireland Act 112; The Napoleonic Wars 113; Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar 114; The Abolition of the Slave Trade 115; The Luddites 116; The Regency 117; Wellington and the Battle of Waterloo 118; The Peterloo Massacre 119; George IV 120; Robert Peel and the Metropolitan Police 121; The Great Reform Act 122; Victorian Britain; Queen Victoria 124; Disraeli and Gladstone 125; The Industrial Revolution, Part 2: The Cost to Society 126; Victorian Arts and Literature 127; Income Tax 128; The Irish Potato Famine 129; Victorian Explorers and Inventors 130; The Great Exhibition 131; The Crimean War 132; The Indian Mutiny 133; Charles Darwin 134; Joseph Lister 135; The Irish Land Act 136; Britain's Colonial Wars 137; Education for All 138; Gordon at Khartoum 139; The First Boer War 140; The Second Boer War 141; The Issue of Home Rule for Ireland 142; Edwardian Britain; Edward VII 144; The Rise of Labour 145; The Suffragettes 146; The Sinking of the Titanic 147; The First World War Years; The First World War 150; The Sinking of the Lusitania 152; The Easter Rising 153; The Battle of the Somme 154; David Lloyd George 155; The 1918 Flu Pandemic 156; The Treaty of Versailles 157; The Interwar Years; The Amritsar Massacre, India 160; The British Commonwealth 161; Palestine and Mesopotamia 162; The Partition of Ireland 163; The General Strike 164; Ramsay MacDonald 165; Women's Suffrage 166; Fleming Discovers Penicillin 167; Edward VIII and the Abdication 168; George VI 169; Sir Oswald Mosley and the Fascists 170; Munich and the Lead-in to the Second World War 171; The Second World War; Germany Invades 174; Sir Winston Churchill 175; War in the Air 176; War at Sea 177; America Enters the War 178; Bletchley Park and Enigma 179; The D Day Landings and VE Day 180; Victory over Japan and the End of the Second World War 181; The Founding of the United Nations 182.
Notes:: "First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Michael O'Mara Books"--T.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:: Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.
ISBN:: 9780385343640; 0385343647
OCLC:: 303041593

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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 / Judy Parkinson.

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