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Aberdeen, Earl of
Aberdeen
Abingdon, fourth Earl of
Abu Klea, Battle of
Abukir Bay, Battle of
accents
Acts of Union
Addison, Joseph
Afghan Wars
Agincourt, Battle of
Agricultural Protection Society
agricultural revolution
Ailesbury, fifth Marquess of
Albert, Prince
alcohol, and elections
Allenby, Field Marshal Lord
American Declaration of Independence
American Revolution see also United States of America
Ampthill
Angus, Earl of
Anna, or the memoirs of a Welsh Heiress
Anne, Queen
Anne of Denmark, Queen
Anson, George
Anti-Corn Law League
Anti-Jacobin
anti-sedition laws
Apperley, Charles
architecture
Archittetura (Serli)
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, fifth Earl of
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, third Duke of
Argyll, John Campbell, fifth Duke of
Argyll, George Campbell, eighth Duke of
aristocracy: and aesthetic taste; Aristotelian concept of; and banditry; and civil wars; Conservatism; devaluation of; diet and health; extinctions; finances; and international culture; and local government; and meritocracy; and military power; numbers; open elite; and paid employment; and plutocracy; political ascendancy; political decline; titles and status; and War of the Three Kingdoms; zenith of power
Aristotle
armed services; see also army
army; Coldstream Guards; Duke of Sutherland’s Fencibles; Guards regiments; Grenadier Guards; Guides Cavalry; 4th Hussars; 11th Hussars; 18th Hussars; 9th Lancers; 17th Lancers; Life Guards; 12th Light Dragoons; 13th Light Dragoons; 23rd Light Dragoons; Petworth Yeomanry; 17th Regiment; 57th Regiment; 63rd Regiment; 78th Regiment; Royal Horse Guards
Arran, Arthur Gore, first Earl of
Arran, Arthur Gore, ninth Earl of
Arthur, King; cult of
Arthur, Prince
artillery
Arundel, Archbishop
Arundel, Richard FitzAlan, Earl of
Arundel, Thomas Howard, second Earl of
Ascot
Ashby St Legers, first Lord
Asquith, Herbert
Association for the Preservation of Liberty and Property
Astrophel and Stella (Sidney)
Atholl, John Murray, fourth Duke of
Atholl, John Murray, seventh Duke of
Atholl, George Murray, tenth Duke of
Atholl, Walter Stewart, Earl of
Atholl, John Murray, Marquess of
attainders
Australia
Bacon, Sir Francis
Baden-Powell, General
Baird, Major Alexander
Balcarres, Colin Lindsay, third Earl of
Balfour, Arthur
Balfour of Burleigh, Lord
Ball, John
ballads
Ballot Act
Bankes, Thomas
Banks, John
Bannockburn, Battle of
Barlow, Sir George
Barnet, Battle of
baronetcies
barons
Bateman, John, second Viscount
Bath, Henry Bourchier, fifth Earl of
Bath, John Thynne, fourth Marquess of
Bath, Henry Thynne, sixth Marquess of
Bath
Bayeaux Tapestry
Beauchamp family
Beaufort, ninth Duke of
Beaumont, Viscount
Bedford, George Neville, Duke of
Bedford, Francis Russell, fifth Duke of
Bedford, John Russell, sixth Duke of
Bedford, Herbrand Russell, eleventh Duke of
Bedford, Francis Russell, fourth Earl of
Beggar’s Opera, The (Gay)
Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle
Belvoir Castle
Bengal
Benn, Anthony Wedgwood
Bentinck, Lord George
Beresford, Admiral Lord Charles
Beresford, Lord William
Berkeley, Maurice, second Baron
Berkeley, Thomas (‘the Magnificent’), fifth Baron
Berkeley, William, first Marquess (and second Baron)
Berkeley, Sir John
Bertie, Charles
Betting Act
Bible
Bill of Rights
bishops
Black, Conrad
Black Act
Blair, Tony
Blenheim Palace
Blennerhassett, Sir Rowland
Blennerhassett, Rowland Ponsonby
Boke of St Albans, The
Bolingbroke, second Lord
Bontine, William
Bonville, Lord
Book Named the Governor, The (Elyot)
Boothby, Robert
Boroughbridge, Battle of
Borthwick, Lord
Boswell, Sir James
Bosworth, Battle of
Bourbon court
Bouvines, Battle of
boxing
Boycott, Captain Charles
Boyne, Battle of the
Brand, Thomas
Breadalbane, John Campbell, first Earl of
Brian Boru
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh)
Bridgewater, Earl and Countess of
Brighton
Bristol, John Digby, first Earl of
Bristol, John Hervey, first Earl of
British Empire
British Magazine
British nationalism
British Union of Fascists
Bromyard, Nicholas
Brooke, Robert, Lord
Buccleuch, Walter Scott, fifth Duke of
Buccleuch, William Scott, sixth Duke of
Buccleuch, John Scott, ninth Duke of
Buckingham, Humphrey Stafford, first Duke of
Buckingham, Henry Stafford, second Duke of
Buckingham, Edward Stafford, third Duke of
Buckingham, George Villiers, first Duke of
Buckingham, George Nugent-Grenville, Marquess of
Bullingdon Club
Burghley, William Cecil, Lord
Burke, Edmund
Burke’s Landed Gentry
Burke’s Peerage
Burton, Michael Bass, Lord
Cade, Jack
Cadogan, William, first Earl of
Cadogan, George, fifth Earl of
Cadwalader
Caerlaverock, siege of
Caister Castle
Caithness, Earl of
Calvinism
Cambridge University
Camelot
Cameron, David
Cameron of Lochiel, Donald
Campbell, General
Campbell, Lord
Campbell clan
Campden, Charles Noel, second Lord
Canada
Canning, George
Cannock Chase
capital offences
capitalism
Carleton, General Guy
Carlton Club
Carnarvon, Henry Herbert, fourth Earl of
Carnarvon, George Herbert, fifth Earl of
Carnwarth, ninth Earl of
Carrington, ‘Charlie’, first Lord
Carrington, Peter, sixth Lord
Castle Howard
Castlereagh, Viscount
castles
Catesby, William
cathedrals
Catherine the Great
Catholic Relief Act
Catholics and Catholicism; Catholic emancipation; and Exclusion crisis; and Glorious Revolution; and Irish aristocracy; and Jacobitism; and land ownership; and Restoration; and War of the Three Kingdoms
Cato Street Conspiracy
Cavalcade (Coward)
Cavendish, Lord Henry
Cavendish, William
Caxton, William
Cecil, Lord Hugh
Cecil, Lord Robert
celebrities
Chamberlain, Austen
Chamberlain, Neville
Chaplin, Henry
Charles I, King; his art collection; corruption and sale of titles; ‘martyrdom’; and War of the Three Kingdoms
Charles II, King (and Prince of Wales)
Charles Edward, Prince (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’, the Young Pretender)
Charlotte, Queen
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chetwynd, sixth Viscount
chivalry; American pseudo-chivalry; and Christianity; and duelling; and French Revolution; and funeral iconography; reinvention of; and tournaments
Church; and Glorious Revolution; and Peasants’ Revolt; and Reformation; Scottish
Church estates
Church of England; Anglican intolerance; and Catholic emancipation; Laudian innovations; liturgy; and Restoration; and War of the Three Kingdoms
Church of Ireland
churches
Churchill, Lord John
Churchill, Lord Randolph
Churchill, Winston
civil list
civil service
Claim of Right
Clanwilliam, Admiral the Earl
Clarence, George, Duke of
Clarence, Thomas, Duke of
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, first Earl of
Clarendon, Henry Hyde, second Earl of
class warfare
clergy
Cleveland, Charles Fitzroy, first Duke of
Clifford, Lord Thomas
Clifford, Sir Robert
Clifton, Gervase
Clotworthy, Sir John, see Massereene, Sir John Clotworthy, Viscount
Clyst St Mary
coats of arms
Cochrane, Lord Thomas
Cochrane, Rear Admiral Sir Arthur
coffee houses
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
College of Arms
Colonial Gentry
commissions of array
Common Sense (Paine)
Commonwealth
Communism and Communists
Compton Wynyates
concerts
Coningsby (Disraeli)
Connoisseurs, The (Rowlandson)
connoisseurship
Conservative Club
Constable, John
Constitution Hill
Continental Congress
Conyngham, George, third Marquess of
Conyngham, Victor, fifth Marquess of
Cooper, Duff
Cooper, Thomas, Bishop of Lincoln
Corn Laws
Cornwall
Cornwall, Edmund Crouchback, Earl of
Cornwall, Richard, Earl of
Cornwallis, General Lord
corresponding societies
Corrupt Practices Act
Country Party
Countryside Alliance
court corruption
Court of Star Chamber
Court of Wards
‘court tone’
courtesans
Coventry, Earl of
Coventry Parliament
Cowes week
Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury
Crawford, twenty-sixth Earl of
Crécy, Battle of
Creevey, Thomas
Crimean War
crofting laws
Cromwell, Oliver
Cromwell, Ralph, Lord
Cromwell, Richard
Cromwell, Thomas
Cruikshank, George
crusades
Culloden, Battle of
Cumberland, Henry Clifford, Earl of
Cumberland, George Clifford, third Earl of
Curzon, Lord
Cyril, Grand Duchess, of Russia
Dacre, Francis, Lord
Dalzell, Colonel Robert
Danby, Earl of
dancing
Dangerfield, George
Darcy, Thomas, Lord
Dashwood, Sir Francis
de Berners, Dame Juliana
de Broke, Lord Willoughby
de Burghersh, Sir Batholomew
de Crewe, Thomas
de Kérouaille, Louise
de Montfort, Simon, see Leicester, Simon de Montfort, Earl of
de Tocqueville, Alexis
de Waldegrave, Sir Richard
death duties Death of General Wolfe, The (West)
debutantes
decadence
Declarations of Indulgence
Declaratory Act
Decline and Fall (Waugh)
dedications
deference
delinquency charges
Delves Broughton, Sir Jock
Denbigh, Basil Feilding, second Earl of
depopulation
Derby, Thomas Stanley, first Earl of
Derby, Edward Stanley, third Earl of
Derby, William Stanley, ninth Earl of
Derby, Edward Stanley, fourteenth Earl of
Derby, Stanley earls of
Despenser, Hugh, Lord
Devonshire, Victor Cavendish, ninth Duke of
Devonshire, William Cavendish, second Earl of
Devonshire, William Cavendish, third Earl of
Devonshire, William Cavendish, fourth Earl of
Diana, Princess of Wales
Diggers
Dilettanti Society
diplomacy
Discourses Concerning Government (Sydney)
Disraeli, Benjamin
dissenters; see also Nonconformists
divorces
dogs
dominions
Donegal, Marchioness of
Dorset, Thomas Beaufort, first Earl of
Dorset, Edward Sackville, fourth Earl of
Dorset, Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of
Dorset, Henry Grey, third Marquess of
Douglas, James, second Earl of
Douglas, Archibald, third Earl of
dress
Drummond, James (self-styled Duke of Perth)
Drummond family
Dublin
duels and duelling
‘duketti’
Dundas, Henry
Dundonald, tenth Earl of
earls
East India Company
eccentricity
Economist
Edgehill, Battle of
Edinburgh; anti-Catholic riots
Edinburgh Review
education
Edward I, King
Edward II, King
Edward III, King
Edward IV, King (and Earl of March)
Edward V, King
Edward VI, King
Edward VII, King (and Prince of Wales)
Edward VIII, King (and Prince of Wales)
Edward, Prince of Wales
Eglinton, Alexander Montgomerie, tenth Earl of
Eglinton, Archibald Montgomerie, thirteenth Earl of
Egmont, John Perceval, first Earl of
Egremont, third Earl of
elections
electoral franchise
Elgin, Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of
Elgin, Victor Bruce, ninth Earl of
Elizabeth I, Queen
Elizabeth II, Queen
Ellenborough, Edward Law, first Baron
Ellenborough, Edward Law, second Baron
Elphinstone, Montstuart
Elyot, Sir Thomas
enclosures
encumbrances
England: and anti-Catholic sentiment; borders; under Commonwealth; and dual monarchy; Elizabethan golden age; and garden metaphor; and religion
Erroll, Francis Hay, ninth Earl of
Erroll, Josslyn Hay, twenty-second Earl of
Essex, Walter Devereux, first Earl of
Essex, Robert Devereux, second Earl of
Essex, Robert Devereux, third Earl of
Eton College
Europe: ancien régime; and French Revolution; and French wars; and Grand Tours; and Protestant cause; religious wars; student agitation in; twentieth-century
Evangelicalism
Evelyn, John
Exclusion Bill
Exeter, Henry Holland, Duke of
Exeter, William Cecil, second Earl of
Exeter, Lord Burghley, sixth Marquess of Faerie Queene (Spenser)
Falkland, Lucius Cary, second Viscount
Falmouth, Hugh Boscawen, second Viscount
Falmouth, Evelyn Boscawen, sixth Viscount
Fascism
fashion
Fenian movement
feuds
Field of the Cloth of Gold
Fielding, Henry
Fifth Monarchy movement
Filmer, Sir Robert
Findlater, James, seventh Earl of
First Book of Ayres (Attey)
First World War
Fisher, Kitty
Fitzwilliam, William, fourth Earl
Fitzwilliam, Charles, fifth Earl
flogging
Florio, John
Foot, Sir Dingle
Football Association
foreign languages
Foreign Office
Forty Years On (Bennett)
Four Feathers, The (Mason)
Fox, Charles James
France; aesthetic fashions; Bourbon restoration; English wars; and Grand Tours; and hunting; and Jacobitism; laws and liberties; religious wars
free trade
Freedom of Information Act
Freeman, the Earl of Clarendon’s gamekeeper (Stubbs)
French (language)
French National Assembly
French Revolution
French wars
Gage, General Sir Thomas
Galloway, James Stewart, seventh Earl of
Game Laws
Gaveston, Piers
Gay, John
George I, King
George II, King
George III, King; and Canadian legislature; and Catholic emancipation; and French wars; and loss of American colonies
George IV, King (and Prince Regent)
George V, King
George VI, King
Germany; Nazi Germany
Gillis, Anna
Gladstone, William
Glasgow, James Carr-Boyle, fifth Earl of
Glasgow, David Boyle, ninth Earl of
Glen Urquhart, laird of
Glenarvon (Lamb)
Glorious First of June
Glorious Revolution
‘Glorious Twelfth’
Gloucester, Eleanor, Duchess of
Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of
Gloucester, Richard, Duke of, see Richard III, King
Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of
Go-Between, The (Hartley)
Godkin, Captain Robert
Goodwood
Gothic revival
Gower, John
Grafton, Henry Fitzroy, first Duke of
Grafton, Henry Fitzroy, fifth Duke of
Graham, Sir James
Granby, John Manners, Marquess of
Great Exhibition
Grevel, William
Greville, Charles
Grey, Earl
Grey, Lady Jane
Grey, Lord Arthur
Grey, Lord Richard
Grosvenor, Lord Robert
Ground Game Bill
Gunpowder Plot
Guy of Warwick
Gwynn, Nell
Habeas Corpus Act
Haig, Field Marshal Lord
Halifax, George Savile, first Earl of
Halifax, Edward Wood, first Earl of
Halifax, second Viscount
Hamilton, James, third Marquess and first Duke of
Hamilton, William, Duke of
Hamilton, James, sixth Duke of
Hamilton, Alexander, tenth Duke of
Hamilton, James
Hamilton, Willie
Hampshire
Handel, George Frideric
Happy Valley
Harcourt, Sir William
Hardwick Hall
Hardy, Captain Thomas
Hardy, Thomas (novelist)
Harrington, William Stanhope, second Earl of
Harrington, Charles Stanhope, eighth Earl of
Harrow School
Haselrig, Sir Arthur
Hastings, William, Lord
Hastings, Francis, first Marquess of (Colonel Lord Rawdon Hastings)
Hastings, Henry, fourth Marquess of
Hastings, Battle of
Hatherton, Edward Littleton, Lord
Hatton, Sir Christopher
Haydn, Joseph
Haydon, Benjamin
heiresses
Henley regatta
Henning, John
Henry I, King
Henry III, King
Henry IV, King (Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster) Henry IV (Shakespeare)
Henry V, King
Henry VI, King Henry VI (Shakespeare)
Henry VII, King (Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond)
Henry VIII, King
Henry, Prince of Wales
heraldry
Hitler, Adolf
Hobbes, Thomas
Hogarth, William
Home, fourteenth Earl of, see Douglas-Home, Sir Alec
homosexuality
horse racing; and the army
Hotspur, Harry
House of Commons; and constitutional reform; and Exclusion crisis; and Glorious Revolution; and Irish Home Rule; and Lords reform; and reform; and Restoration; and War of the Three Kingdoms
House of Lords; and America; and constitutional reform; and Exclusion crisis; expansion of; and French wars; and Glorious Revolution; and Irish reform; numbers; and reform; reform of; and Restoration; and War of the Three Kingdoms
houses, aristocratic; opened to public; sales of
Howard of Bindon, Lord
Hundred Years War
hunting and shooting; and the army; ban on fox-hunting; and the colonies; grouse shooting
Huntingdon, William de Clinton, first Earl of
Huntingdon, John Holland, first Earl of
Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, third Earl of
Huntingdon, Francis Hastings, tenth Earl of
Huntly, George Gordon, sixth Earl of
Hyde, Edward, see Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of
Ikerrin, Piers Butler, first Viscount Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde)
indentures
India
industrial revolution
Inns of Court
‘interludes’
Ireland; and Commonwealth; and Glorious Revolution; insurrection and disorder; and Jacobitism; and land ownership; and land reform; potato famine; and religion; and War of the Three Kingdoms
Ireton, Henry
Irish Church Disestablishment Act
Irish Exchequer
Irish Home Rule
Irish Land Acts
Irish Local Government Act
Irish Parliament
Irish peers
Isabella of France, Queen
Italy; and Grand Tours
Ivanhoe (Scott)
Iveagh, Edward Guinness, Lord
Jacobinism
Jacobitism
James I (and VI of Scotland), King; corruption and sale of titles; modernisation of Scottish culture
James II, King (and Duke of York)
James I, King of Scotland
James II, King of Scotland
James IV, King of Scotland
James, Prince of Wales (the Old Pretender)
Jansen, Gerard
Jefferson, Thomas
Jeffreys of Wem, Lord (Sir George Jeffreys)
Jerusalem
Jesuits
Jews
Jockey Club
John, King
Johnson, Samuel
Jones, Inigo
Jonson, Ben
justices; see also magistrates
Kenilworth Castle
Kildare, Gerald FitzGerald, ninth Earl of
kings and kingship; and absolutism; and aristocratic opposition; and devolution of power; divine right of kings; and favourites; increase in status; and royal advisers
Kinloss, Lord Bruce of
Kitchener of Khartoum, Lord
Knight of the Swan
Knight’s Tale, The
knights; Chaucer’s; and chivalry; and the ‘estates’; and funeral iconography; and hunting; Roman; and sale of titles; and tournaments
Knox, Major-General Sir Harry
La Roi à Chasse (van Dyck)
La Terre (Zola)
Lady’s Magazine
laissez-faire economics
Lamb, Lady Caroline
Lancaster, Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of, see Henry IV, King
Lancaster, John of Gaunt, Duke of
Lancaster, Thomas, Earl of
Land League
Land Nationalisation Society
land ownership and values; and taxation
landscaping
Landseer, Edwin
Lansdowne, Lord
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury
Lauderdale, John Hamilton, Duke of
Lawrence, T. E.
Le Morte Darthur (Malory)
Leeds, eleventh Duke of
Lees-Milne, James
Leicester, Simon de Montfort, Earl of
Leicester, Robert Dudley, first Earl of
Leicester, Robert Sidney, second Earl of
Leinster, sixth Duke of
Leitrim, third Earl of
Les Nouvelles de la République des Lettres et des Artes
Les Plans et Desseins tirés de la Belle Architecture
Letter to a Dissenter (Halifax)
Levellers
Leviathan (Hobbes)
Lewes, Battle of
Lewes races
Licensing Bill
life peerages
Lindsey, second Earl of
Lisbon Treaty
Lisle, Thomas Talbot, second Viscount
Lisle, Arthur Plantagenet, first Viscount
literacy
literature; schoolboy; ‘silver fork’ novels
liveries, grants of
Liverpool, Charles Jenkinson, first Earl of
Liverpool, Robert Jenkinson, second Earl of
Lloyd George, David
Local Government Act
Locke, John
Lockhart, Cromwell
Lollards
London, Henry Compton, Bishop of
London, Charles Blomfield, Bishop of
London: architecture; art market; concentration of power in; influx of Scots and Irish; mobs; and Peasants’ Revolt; Restoration; and Tudor rebellions; and War of the Three Kingdoms; and Wars of the Roses
London Caledonian Ball
London Corresponding Society
London season
London–Edinburgh railway
Londonderry, Charles Vane, third Marquess of
Londonderry, George Vane-Tempest, fifth Marquess of
Londonderry, Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, sixth Marquess of
Lonsdale, fifth Lord
Lord Lieutenants
Louis XIV, King of France
Louis XVI, King of France
Louis XVIII, King of France
Lovel, Francis, Lord
Lucan, third Lord
Luddites
Ludford, Battle of
Macaroni Club
Macarthur, John
Macdonald, James Ramsay
MacDonalds of the Isles
machine-breakers
Mackenzie, Kenneth
Macmillan, Harold
Macnamara, Captain James
Magna Carta
magnificence
Major, Sir John
Malmesbury, James Harris, second Earl of
Malmesbury, James Harris, third Earl of
Malory, Sir Thomas
Manchester, eleventh Duke of
Manchester
Mandeville, Viscount
Manners, Lord John
mantraps
Mar, John Erskine, sixth Earl of
Mar, John Erskine, seventh Earl of
March, Roger Mortimer, first Earl of
March, Edmund Mortimer, fifth Earl of
March, Edward Plantagenet, Earl of, see Edward IV, King
Margaret of Anjou, Queen
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
Marlborough, John Churchill, first Duke of
Marlborough, George Spencer-Churchill, fifth Duke of
Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of
Marlborough, Charles Spencer-Churchill, ninth Duke of
Marlborough College
Marston Moor, Battle of
Mary I, Queen
Mary II, Queen
Mary of Teck, Queen
Mary Queen of Scots
masquerades Massacre at Paris, The (Marlowe)
Massereene, Sir John Clotworthy, Viscount
Massey, Vincent
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Newton)
Maxwell, Sir John Heron
Melville, James
memorials, see funeral iconography
Merton Myrmidons
Meulan, Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester and count of
Michelangelo
middle classes; and armed services; and colonial service; and constitutional reform; and elections; Irish; and property laws; and reform; and sports; and taxation; ‘triumph’ of
millenarian sects
Milner, Alfred
Minto, Gilbert Eliot, second Earl of
mistresses
Monmouth, James, Duke of
Montagu of Beaulieu, Lord
Montaigne, Michel de
Montmorres, Viscount
Montrose, James Graham, third Duke of
Montrose, James Graham, first Marquess of
Montrose, James Graham, seventh Duke of
Moore, Thomas
Mornington, second Earl of, see Wellesley, Richard, Marquess
Morrison, Sir Charles
Morrison, Herbert
Moser, Sir Claus
Mosley, Sir Oswald
motor cars
Mountjoy, James Blount, Lord
Mowbray, Lady Anne
Murray, Lord George
music
Muthaiga Club
Mystens, Daniel
Namier, Sir Lewis
Naples, King of
Napoleon Bonaparte
Naseby, Battle of
Nashe, Thomas
Nazism
Nelson, Admiral Lord
Neville family
New Model Army
New South Wales
New Zealand
Newbury, Battle of
Newcastle, William Cavendish, first Duke of
Newcastle, Henry Cavendish, second Duke of
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, first Duke of
Newcastle, Henry Pelham-Clinton, fourth Duke of
newspapers
Nibley Green
nicknames
Nonconformists; see also dissenters
Nonsuch palace
Norfolk, John Mowbray, third Duke of
Norfolk, John Howard, first Duke of
Norfolk, Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of
Norfolk, Henry Howard, seventh Duke of
Norfolk, Charles Howard, eleventh Duke of
Norfolk, Bernard Howard, twelfth Duke of
Norfolk, Henry Fitzalan-Howard, fifteenth Duke of
Norfolk
Norman Conquest
Norman Yoke theory
Normandy
North, Lord
North America; see also United States of America
Northampton, Battle of
Northumberland, John Dudley, first Duke of
Northumberland, Hugh Percy, third Duke of
Northumberland, Algernon Percy, sixth Duke of
Northumberland, Henry Percy, seventh Duke of
Northumberland, Alan Percy, eighth Duke of
Northumberland, Henry Percy, first Earl of
Northumberland, Henry Percy, second Earl of
Northumberland, Thomas Percy, seventh Earl of
Northumberland, Henry Percy, ninth Earl of
North-West Frontier
Norton, Sir Fletcher
Oates, Titus
Obscene Publications Bill
O’Connell, Daniel
Oldhall, Sir William
Oracle, The
Order of Cincinnati
Order of St Michael and St George
Order of St Patrick
Order of the Bath
Order of the Crown of India
Order of the Garter
Order of the Star of India
Order of the Thistle
Orford, Robert Walpole, first Earl of
Orford, Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of
Otterburn, Battle of
Oxford, John de Vere, thirteenth Earl of
Oxford, Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of
Oxford, Henry de Vere, eighteenth Earl of
Oxford University
Page, David
Paine, Thomas
paintings
Palais du Luxembourg
Palmer, William
Palmerston, Lord
Paris; and French Revolution
Parliament; and Declaratory Act; declining reputation; and Exclusion crisis; and French Revolution and wars; and Glorious Revolution; and industry; and Ireland; and reform; and Restoration; and War of the Three Kingdoms; see also Barebones Parliament; Convention Parliament; Rump Parliament
Parliament Bill and Act
Parnell, Charles Stewart
Parthenon Marbles
Paston, Sir John
Paston family
Patriarcha, or that Natural Power of Kings Asserte (Filmer)
patronage
peasantry
Peasants’ Revolt
pedigrees, faked
Peel, Sir Robert
Pembroke, Countess of
Pembroke, William Herbert, first Earl of
Pembroke, Henry Herbert, second Earl of
Pembroke, William Herbert, third Earl of
Peninsular War
Pennsylvania Evening Press
People’s Budget (1909)
Pepys, Samuel
Peterloo massacre
Petersham, Viscount
Petre, Edward
Philip I, King of Spain
Philip II, King of France
pig-sticking
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pinkie Cleugh, Battle of
Pitt, Thomas
Pitt, William, the Elder
Pitt, William, the Younger
Plantation Office
poachers and poaching
pocket boroughs
political conversation and debate
poll taxes
Poor Laws
population
Portarlington, second Earl of
Portland, William Bentinck-Scott, fifth Duke of
Portland, William Cavendish-Bentinck, sixth Duke of
Powell, Enoch
Presbyterians and Presbyterianism; Covenanters
Preston, Battle of (1648)
Preston, Battle of (1715)
Prestonpans, Battle of
Prime Minister, The (Trollope)
Primrose League
Prince Regent, see George IV, King
prostitutes
Protestants and Protestantism; and Irish aristocracy; and land ownership; and War of the Three Kingdoms
Public Advertiser
public schools
Puritans and Puritanism
Putney debates
Pym, John
Queensberry, Duchess of
Queensberry, William Douglas, fourth Duke of
Queensberry, Archibald Douglas, eighth Marquess of
ragging
Raglan, Lord
railways
Ranters
recusancy laws
Redesdale, second Lord
Rees-Mogg, William
Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke)
reform
Reform Bill and Act
Renaissance Humanism
Renaissance noblemen
Restoration
retainers
Reynolds, Joshua
Richard I (‘the Lionheart’), King
Richard II, King; and Peasants’ Revolt
Richard II (Shakespeare)
Richard III, King (and Duke of Gloucester)
Richard III (Shakespeare)
Richmond, Ludovick Stuart, first Duke of
Richmond, Charles Lennox, first Duke of
Richmond, Charles Lennox, second Duke of
Richmond, Charles Lennox, third Duke of
Richmond, Charles Gordon-Lennox, fifth Duke of
Richmond, Charles Gordon-Lennox, seventh Duke of
Richmond, Henry Tudor, Earl of, see Henry VII, King
Rights of Man (Paine)
Rising of the Northern Earls
Rivers, Anthony Woodville, Lord
Robert the Bruce
Roberts of Kandahar, Field-Marshal Lord
Rodney, George Brydges, Lord
Roman art
Roman heroes
romances and legends
Romanticism
Rome; ancient
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Roos, Thomas, Lord
Rosebery, Lord
rotten boroughs
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rowlandson, Thomas
Royal Academy
Royal Academy of Music
Royal Society
Rupert of the Rhine, Prince
Russell, Lord John
Russell, Lord William
Russell, Edward
Russell, John, Bishop of Lincoln
Russia
Rutland, Henry Manners, fifth Duke of
Rutland, Henry Manners, first Earl of
St Albans, Charles, first Duke of
St Albans, Battles of
St Germains, Edward Eliot, Lord
St Machar’s Cathedral
Saintes, Battle of the
Salisbury, Richard Neville, Earl of
Salisbury, James Gascoyne-Cecil, second Marquess of
Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, third Marquess of
Salisbury, James Gascoyne-Cecil, fourth Marquess of
Sandwich, fourth Earl of
sans-culottes
Savile, Thomas, Viscount
Savoy palace
schools; public
Scotland; clans and septs; and Commonwealth; and dual monarchy; English wars; feuds; and French wars; and Glorious Revolution; and Jacobitism; land values; land ownership; minority and regency governments; modernisation of culture; and religion; and Restoration; of Scott’s novels; and shooting; and War of the Three Kingdoms
Scott, Sir Walter
Scottish Borders; and reform
Scottish Highlands; and Jacobitism
Scottish Kirk
Scottish Parliament
Scottish Privy Council
sculpture
Seaforth, Francis Mackenzie, first Baron
Seaforth, William Mackenzie, fifth Earl of
Second World War
Sedley, Sir Charles
Segar, Sir William
Selborne, first Lord Sentimental Journey, A
serfdom
servants
Seymour, Lord Thomas
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Sir John
Shelley, Percy
Sherriffmuir, Battle of
Shrewsbury, Elizabeth, Countess of
Shrewsbury, John Talbot, first Earl of
Shrewsbury, John Talbot, second Earl of
Shrewsbury, Gilbert Talbot, seventh Earl of
Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, twelfth Earl of
Shrewsbury, Francis Talbot, fifth Earl of
Shrewsbury, Battle of
Sibthorp, Colonel Charles de Laet Waldo
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, first Lord
Sidney, Sir Philip
Sidney, Sir Ralph
‘silver fork’ novels
Skipwith, Sir William
slaves and slave trade; abolition; in America
Smith, John
Smith, Thomas Assheton
socialism
Society for the Encouragement of Purity in Literature
Society of Noblemen and Gentlemen for the Preservation of Game
Solway Moss, Battle of
Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, first Duke of
Somerset, Edward Seymour, first Duke of (Protector Somerset)
Somerset, Robert Carr, first Earl of
South Africa
Southey, Robert
Spain; and Jacobitism; and Peninsular War
Spanish Armada Spectator, The
Spenser, Edmund
sporting estates
sports; and the army; see also cricket; hunting and shooting; polo
spring guns
Stafford, William Howard, fifth Viscount
Stanhope, Hon. Augustus
Statutes of Iona
Statutes of Labourers
Steel, A. G.
Sterne, Laurence
Steyning races
St-Germain-en-Laye
Stillingfleet, Edward, Dean of St Paul’s
Stone, Lawrence
Stoye, John
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of
Strathallan, James Drummond, Viscount
Straw, Jack
Straw, Jack (Home Secretary)
Strutt, Edward
Stubbs, George
Suckling, Sir John
Suffield, Edward Harbord, third Lord
Suffield, Charles Harbord, fifth Lord
Suffolk, William de la Pole, first Duke of
Suffolk, John de la Pole, second Duke of
Suffolk, Edmund de la Pole, third Duke of
Suffolk
suffragettes
Sunderland, Countess of
Sunderland, Robert Spencer, second Earl of
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of
Sussex
Sutherland, Cromartie, fourth Duke of
Sutherland, William, seventeenth Earl of
Swift, Jonathan
swordsmanship, see fencing
Sybil (Disraeli)
Sydney, Algernon
Sydney, Henry
Sydney (Australia)
Sykes, Sir Mark
Tailboys, Sir William
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de
Tancred (Disraeli)
Tatler, The
Tattershall Castle
taxation; see also death duties
temperance movement
Tempest, Lord Ernest Vane
terrorism
Tewkesbury, Battle of
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thanet, John Tufton, second Earl of
Thatcher, Margaret
theatres, closure of
Theobalds
Thesaurus Linguae Romanas (Cooper)
Thirty Years War
Thistlewood, Arthur
Thompson, Flora
Thorpe, Jeremy
Times, The
titles, sale of
‘To a Young Ass’ (Coleridge)
Tod, Colonel James
Tom Jones (Fielding)
tourism
tournaments
Tower of London
Towne, Benjamin
Towton, Battle of
Trade Disputes Act
trade unions
Trafalgar, Battle of
Treasonous Practices and Seditious Meetings Bill
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Dublin
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare)
Trollope, Anthony
Tudor, Owain
Tullibardine, William Murray, Earl of
turnpikes
Tweeddale, Marquess of
Two Treatises on Government (Locke)
Tyler, Wat
Tyrconnel, Richard Talbot, Earl of
Ulster
United States of America; army officers; communists in; laws and liberties; student agitation in; Thomas Paine and; see also American Revolution
universities
Upstairs Downstairs
utilitarianism
Uxbridge, Henry Paget, ninth Earl of
van Dyck, Anthony
Vanbrugh, Sir John
Vanderbilt, Consuelo
Vanderbilt, William
Victoria, Queen
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria Cross
Vindication of the Rights of Man (Wollstonecraft)
Virginia Vita Edwardi Secundi
Wales
Walpole, Sir Horace, see Orford, Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of
Walpole, Sir Robert, see Orford, Robert Walpole, first Earl of
Walter, Lucy
War of the Three Kingdoms
wardship
Wars of the Roses
Warwick, Countess of
Warwick, Guy de Beauchamp, tenth Earl of
Warwick, Thomas de Beauchamp, twelfth Earl of
Warwick, Richard de Beauchamp, thirteenth Earl of
Warwick, Richard Neville (‘the Kingmaker), sixteenth Earl of
Warwick, Robert Rich, second Earl of
Washington, General George
Waterford, Henry Beresford, third Marquess of
Waterford, John Beresford, fourth Marquess of
Waterford, John Beresford, fifth Marquess of
Waterloo, Battle of
Waugh, Evelyn
Wedgwood, Josiah
Welbeck Abbey
Wellesley, Richard, Marquess (and second Earl of Mornington)
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of; and reform
Welsh bards
Wentworth, Sir William
West, Benjamin
Westminster, second Duke of
Westminster Abbey
Westminster election
Westminster Hall
Westminster Palace
Westminster School
Westmorland, Countess of
Westmorland, Charles Neville, sixth Earl of
Wharton, Philip, fourth Baron
Wharton, Thomas, first Marquess of
Whigs and Tories
White, Robert Eyre
White Mischief (Fox)
White’s Club
Whitelock, Bulstrode
Who’s Who
Wilberforce, William
Wilde, Oscar
Wilkes, John
William the Conqueror (King William I)
William III, King (William of Orange)
William IV, King
Wilson, Harold (Lord Wilson of Rievaulx)
Wiltshire, James Butler, Earl of
Winchester, Bishop of
Winchester, Marquess of
Winchilsea, tenth Earl of
Windsor, Duke of, see Edward VIII, King
Windsor
Wodehouse, P. G.
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Wolsey, Thomas
Wood, Edward, see Halifax, Edward Wood, first Earl of
Wood, Colonel Thomas
Woodberry, Lieutenant
Woodville, Elizabeth, see Elizabeth Woodville, Queen
Wootton, Sir Henry
Worcester, Battle of
working classes
Wriothesley family
Wyatt, Sir Thomas
Wycliffe, John
Wylloughby, Francis, Lord
Wylloughby, Richard
xenophobia
York, Edward, Duke of
York, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of
York, Richard, Duke of
York, Duke of, see James II, King
Yorktown, Battle of
Young England movement
Younghusband, George
Zola, Émile
Zulu War
Zutphen, siege of