Great Tales from English History

Chapters

• 1 Cheddar Man c. 7150 BC
• 2 Pytheas and the Painted People c. 325 BC
• 3 The Standard-bearer of the 10th 55 BC
• 4 And Did Those Feet? Jesus Christ and the Legends of Glastonbury AD 1-33
• 5 The Emperor Claudius Triumphant AD 43
• 6 Boadicea, Warrior Queen AD 61
• 7 Hadrian's Wall AD 122
• 8 Arthur, Once and Future King AD 410-c.600
• 9 Pope Gregory's Angels c. AD 575
• 10 St. Augustine's Magic AD 597
• 11 King Oswy and the Crown of Thorns AD 664
• 12 Caedmon, the First English Poet c. AD 680
• 13 The Venerable Bede AD 672/3-735
• 14 Alfred and the Cakes AD 878
• 15 The Lady of the Mercians AD 911-18
• 16 Ethelred the Unready AD 978-1016
• 17 Elmer the Flying Monk c. AD 1010
• 18 King Canute and the Waves AD 1016-35
• 19 Edward the Confessor AD 1042-66
• 20 The Legend of Lady Godiva c. AD 1043
• 21 The Year of Three Kings AD 1066
• 22 The Death of Brave King Harold AD 1066
• 23 Hereward the Wake and the Norman Yoke AD 1070
• 24 The Domesday Book AD 1086
• 25 The Mysterious Death of William Rufus AD 1100
• 26 Henry I and the White Ship AD 1120
• 27 Stephen and Matilda AD 1135-54
• 28 Murder in the Cathedral AD 1170
• 29 A King Repents AD 1174
• 30 The River-bank Take-away AD 1172
• 31 Richard the Lionheart AD 1189-99
• 32 John Lackland and Magna Carta AD 1215
• 33 Hobbehod, Prince of Thieves AD 1225
• 34 Simon de Montfort and his Talking-place AD 1265
• 35 A Prince Who Speaks No Word of English AD 1284
• 36 Piers Gaveston and Edward II AD 1308
• 37 A Prince Wins His Spurs AD 1346
• 38 The Burghers of Calais AD 1347
• 39 The Fair Maid of Kent and the Order of the Garter AD 1347-9
• 40 The Great Mortality AD 1348-9
• 41 The Bedside Manner of a Plague Doctor AD 1376
• 42 The Dream of Piers the Ploughman AD 1377
• 43 The 'Mad Multitude' AD 1381
• 44 Geoffrey Chaucer and the Mother Tongue AD 1387
• 45 The Deposing of King Richard II AD 1399
• 46 'Turn Again, Dick Whittington!' AD 1399
• 47 Henry IV and His Extra-virgin Oil AD 1399
• 48 We Happy Few - the Battle of Azincourt AD 1415
• 49 Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans AD 1429
• 50 A'Prompter for Little Ones' AD 1440
• 51 House of Lancaster: the Two Reigns of Henry VI AD 1422-61, 1470-1
• 52 The House of Theodore AD 1432-85
• 53 House of York: Edward IV, Merchant King AD 1461-70, 1471-83
• 54 William Caxton AD 1474
• 55 Whodunnit? The Princes in the Tower AD 1483
• 56 The Cat and the Rat AD 1484
• 57 The Battle of Bosworth Field AD 1485
• 58 Double Trouble AD 1486-99
• 59 Fish 'n' Ships AD 1497
• 60 Fork In, Fork Out AD 1500
• 61 King Henry VIII's 'Great Matter' AD 1509-33
• 62 'Let There Be Light' - William Tyndale and the English Bible AD 1525
• 63 Thomas More and His Wonderful 'No-Place' AD 1535
• 64 Divorced, Beheaded, Died... AD 1533-7
• 65 The Pilgrimage of Grace AD 1536
• 66 ...Divorced, Beheaded, Survived AD 1539-47
• 67 Boy King - Edward VI, 'The Godly Imp' AD 1547-53
• 68 Lady Jane Grey - the Nine-day Queen AD 1553
• 69 Bloody Mary and the Fires of Smithfield AD 1553-8
• 70 Robert Recorde and His Intelligence Sharpener AD 1557
• 71 Elizabeth - Queen of Hearts AD 1559
• 72 That's Entertainment AD 1571
• 73 Sir Walter Ralegh and the Lost Colony AD 1585
• 74 Mary Queen of Scots AD 1560-87
• 75 Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada AD 1588
• 76 Sir John's Jakes AD 1592
• 77 By Time Surprised AD 1603
• 78 5/11: England's First Terrorist AD 1605
• 79 King James's 'Authentical' Bible AD 1611
• 80 'Spoilt Child' and the Pilgrim Fathers AD 1616
• 81 The Ark of the John Tradescants AD 1622
• 82 God's Lieutenant in Earth AD 1629
• 83 'All My Birds Have Flown' AD 1642
• 84 Roundheads v. Cavaliers AD 1642-8
• 85 Behold the Head of a Traitor! AD 1649
• 86 'Take Away This Bauble!' AD 1653
• 87 Rabbi Manasseh and the Return of the Jews AD 1655
• 88 Charles II and the Royal Oak AD 1660
• 89 The Village That Chose to Die AD 1665
• 90 London Burning AD 1666
• 91 Titus Oates and the Popish Plot AD 1678/9
• 92 Monmouth's Rebellion and the Bloody Assizes AD 1685
• 93 The Glorious Invasion AD 1688-9
• 94 Isaac Newton and the Principles of the Universe AD 1687
• 95 John Locke and Toleration AD 1690
• 96 'Remember the Boyne!' - the Birth of the Orangemen AD 1690
• 97 Britannia Rules the Waves - the Triangular Trade AD 1693
• 98 Jethro Tull's 'Drill' and the Miner's Friend AD 1701
• 99 Marlborough Catches the French Sleeping at the Village of the Blind AD 1704
• 100 Union Jack AD 1707
• 101 Made in Germany AD 1714
• 102 South Sea Bubble AD 1720
• 103 Britain's First Prime Minister AD 1721-42
• 104 Born Again AD 1738
• 105 Dick Turpin - 'Stand and Deliver!' AD 1739
• 106 God Save the King! AD 1745
• 107 Dr Johnson's Dictionary AD 1755
• 108 General Wolfe and the Capture of Quebec AD 1759
• 109 James Hargreaves and the Spinning Jenny AD 1766
• 110 Captain Cook - Master of the Pilotage AD 1770
• 111 The Boston Tea Party AD 1773
• 112 Thomas Clarkson - the Giant with One Idea AD 1785
• 113 The Madness of King George III AD 1788
• 114 'Breadfruit Bligh' and the Mutiny on the Bounty AD 1789
• 115 Thomas Paine and the Rights of Man AD 1791
• 116 Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman AD 1792
• 117 England Expects... AD 1805
• 118 Fanny Burney's Breast AD 1811
• 119 Who Was Ned Ludd? AD 1812
• 120 Wellington and Waterloo AD 1815
• 121 Stone Treasures - Mary Anning and the Terror Lizards AD 1823
• 122 Blood on the Tracks AD 1830
• 123 The Lung Power of Orator Hunt AD 1819-32
• 124 The Tolpuddle Martyrs AD 1834
• 125 'I Will Be Good' - Victoria Becomes Queen AD 1837
• 126 'God's Wonderful Railway' - Isambard Kingdom Brunel AD 1843
• 127 Rain, Steam & Speed - the Shimmering Vision of J.M.W. Turner AD 1843
• 128 Prince Albert's Crystal Palace AD 1851
• 129 'Women and Children First!' - the Birkenhead Drill AD 1852
• 130 Into the Valley of Death AD 1854
• 131 The Lady of the Lamp and the Lady with the Teacup (plus the Odd Sip of Brandy) AD 1854-5
• 132 Charles Darwin and the Survival of the Fittest AD 1858
• 133 The Great Stink - and the Tragedy of the Princess Alice AD 1878
• 134 Lord Rosebery's Historical Howler AD 1887
• 135 Annie Besant and 'Phossy Jaw' - the Strike of the Match Girls AD 1888
• 136 Diamond Jubilee - the Empire Marches By AD 1897
• 137 Slaughter on Spion Kop AD 1900
• 138 Edward VII and the Entente Cordiale AD 1903
• 139 Cellar Murderer Caught by Wireless - Dr Crippen AD 1910
• 140 'I May Be Some Time...' - the Sacrifice of Captain Oates AD 1912
• 141 The King's Horse and Emily Davison AD 1913
• 142 When Christmas Stopped a War AD 1914
• 143 Patriotism Is Not Enough - Edith Cavell AD 1915
• 144 Your Country Needs You! - the Sheffield Pals AD 1916
• 145 A Country Fit for Heroes? AD 1926
• 146 The Greatest History Book Ever AD 1930
• 147 Not Cricket - 'Bodyline' Bowling Wins the Ashes AD 1933
• 148 Edward the Abdicator AD 1936
• 149 Peace for Our Time! - Mr Chamberlain Takes a Plane AD 1938
• 150 Dunkirk - Britain's Army Saved by the Little Boats AD 1940
• 151 Battle of Britain - the Few and the Many AD 1940
• 152 Code-making, Code-breaking - 'The Life That I Have' AD 1943
• 153 Voice of the People AD 1945
• 154 Decoding the Secret of Life AD 1953