British History Displayed
1688–1950

Table of Contents

Part I. 1688–1789 (First Term):
1. Europe about the end of the seventeenth century
2. Louis XIV of France
3. William III, the Dutch King of England
4. The war of the English succession
5. The war of the Spanish succession
6. Queen Anne and the Marlboroughs
7. Queen Anne's London
8. The country squire
9. Women's occupations
10. Food and cooking
11. Children and their education
12. Newspapers, music and musicians
13. A King from Hanover, George I
14. Sir Robert Walpole
15. The war of the Austrian succession
16. Georgian homes
17. Transport
18. British and French in North America
19. British and French in India
20. William Pitt: the Seven Years War
21. George III (1760–1820)
22. The American colonies
23. The American war
24. Eighteenth-century village
25. Bath
26. The English church in the eighteenth century
27. Eighteenth-century literature
28. Painters: musicians: the theatre
29. The Industrial Revolution: the coming of machines
30. Ireland in the eighteenth century
31. Scotland in the eighteenth century
Some suggestions for exercises and discussions
Part II. 1789–1860 (Second Term):
32. The French Revolution, 1789
33. Britain and the French Revolution: young Mr Pitt
34. The Napoleonic wars, 1803–15
35. The Congress of Vienna: nationalism
36. Central and South America
37. Writers and musicians in the early nineteenth century
38. After the wars
years of distress
39. The Regency: age of the 'dandies'
40. Canning's foreign policy
41. Tory reforms: Catholic emancipation
42. Reforms in factories and mines
43. Roads and railways
44. Revolts in France and Belgium, 1830
45. Parliamentary reform
46. Young Queen Victoria
47. The 'hungry forties'
48. The Crimean War (1854–6)
49. Socialism and Karl Marx
50. The year of revolutions, 1848
51. Material benefits
52. Mid-Victorian homes and women: the Great Exhibition
53. Religion in Victorian England
54. 'Darwinism'
55. Disraeli and Gladstone: the Treaty of Berlin
56. India since the days of Clive: the Indian Mutiny
57. Bismarck and the German Empire
58. Unification of Italy
59. Canada and Newfoundland
60. Australia
61. New Zealand
62. The exploration and partition of Africa
Some suggestions for exercises and discussions
Part III. 1860–1950 (Third Term):
63. The United States
64. British soldiers and sailors
65. Education in nineteenth-century England
66. Trade unions and socialism
67. The Far East: China and Japan
68. British and Boers in South Africa: the Boer War
69. Sail and return
70. Road transport in the later nineteenth century: balloons
71. Gladstone and the Irish question
72. The Egyptian question
73. Gladstone's third ministry (1885–6): Lord Salisbury
74. The British Empire in 1900
75. Emancipated women
76. The old Queen and her family
77. Some Victorian writers
78. The turn of the century 1890–1910
79. Edward VII (1901–10)
80. Education: social reform
81. The United States in the modern world
82. World War I
83. The treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919
84. The League of Nations
85. Ireland after World War I
86. The troubled twenties
87. 'Empire' into 'Commonwealth'
88. India
89. Soviet Russia
90. War clouds threaten again
91. Causes of World War II
92. The Second World War, 1939–45
93. Post-war changes in the British Empire
94. The modern world
Some suggestions for exercises and discussions
Index.

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