Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Parkinson, Judy.

Publication

New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.

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Details

Description

192 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Great Britain > History > Chronology
• Great Britain > History > Outlines, syllabi, etc

Genre/Form

• chronologies (lists)
• outlines (documents)
• syllabi.
• Chronologies
• History
• Outlines and syllabi
• Chronologies.
• Résumés et programmes.

Note

• "First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Michael O'Mara Books"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780385343640 (hbk.)
• 0385343647 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2009020780

OCLC

303041593

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library