by Andrew Marr
 Hebrews ref 1, ref 2
   Heinrich events ref 1
   Helen of Troy ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
   Hellenistic culture ref 1, ref 2
   henges ref 1
   Henry IV, King of France ref 1
   Henry, Patrick ref 1
   Henry VIII, King ref 1
   Hephaestion ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Heraclius, Emperor ref 1
   Herod, King ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Herodotus ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
   Herophilos ref 1
   Hidetada ref 1
   Hideyoshi ref 1
   Hilkiah (high priest) ref 1
   Hinduism/Hindus ref 1, ref 2
   Hiroshima ref 1, ref 2
   Hitler, Adolf ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
   attack on Soviet Union ref 1, ref 2
   character ref 1
   charisma ref 1
   and economics ref 1
   and Gandhi ref 1
   hatred of the Jews ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
   ideology ref 1
   as master propagandist ref 1, ref 2
   Mein Kampf ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
   Munich putsch and imprisonment (1923) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   rise to power ref 1, ref 2
   and Second World War ref 1, ref 2
   and swastika ref 1
   Hittites ref 1
   Hochschild, Adam ref 1
   Hodder, Ian ref 1
   Hogg, James ref 1
   Hohenzollerns ref 1
   Holland 302 see also Netherlands
   Holland, Tom ref 1
   Holocaust ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
   Holy Land ref 1, ref 2
   Holy Roman Empire ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
   home ref 1
   Homer ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Iliad ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Odyssey ref 1
   Homo erectus ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
   Homo heidelbergensis ref 1, ref 2
   Homo sapiens ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
   homosexuality
   Greek ref 1, ref 2
   Roman ref 1
   Hong Kong, handing over as a British colony ref 1
   Hong Xiuquan ref 1
   Hooke, Robert ref 1
   Hoover, Herbert ref 1
   Horthy, Miklos ref 1
   Horus ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   House of Commons ref 1
   houses, Neolithic ref 1, ref 2
   Hua Guofeng ref 1
   huarango trees ref 1
   human sacrifice
   ancient China ref 1
   Aztecs ref 1
   Minoans ref 1
   Nazca ref 1
   humans
   impact of climate on movement of Homo Sapiens ref 1
   migration out of Africa ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   origins ref 1
   spreading of ref 1
   Hume, Allan Octavian ref 1
   Hungary ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Huns ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Hunter, John ref 1
   hunter-gatherer societies ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
   belief systems ref 1
   conflict and tribal war ref 1
   division of labour ref 1, ref 2
   and grandmothers ref 1
   lessons to be drawn from ref 1
   lifespans ref 1
   reverence for animals ref 1
   tribal bonding ref 1
   Hus, Jan ref 1
   Huygens, Christiaan ref 1, ref 2
   Hyrcanus ref 1
   IBM ref 1, ref 2
   Ibn Battuta ref 1, ref 2
   Ibn Khaldun ref 1
   Ibn Marwan ref 1
   Ibn Rushd see Averroës
   ice ages ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
   Iceland ref 1
   Muslim raids (1627) ref 1
   Ieyasu, Tokugawa ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Ife culture ref 1
   Igor ref 1
   imperialism ref 1
   and ‘scramble for Africa’ ref 1, ref 2
   Inanna (god) ref 1
   Incas ref 1, ref 2
   conquest of by Spanish ref 1, ref 2
   expansion of empire ref 1
   society ref 1
   India, ancient ref 1
   agriculture ref 1
   Brahmin system ref 1, ref 2
   caste system ref 1
   cities ref 1, ref 2
   clan organisation ref 1
   culture ref 1
   gods ref 1
   Gupta dynasty ref 1, ref 2
   Mauryan ref 1, ref 2
   migration of people into ref 1
   India (modern) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   and Amritsar Massacre (1919) ref 1, ref 2
   British in ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Buddhism ref 1
   Civil Service ref 1
   comparison with Europe ref 1
   Delhi Muslim dynasties ref 1
   and Gandhi ref 1, ref 2
   independence (1947) ref 1
   independence campaign ref 1
   Mughal empire ref 1
   Muslim-Hindu conflicts ref 1, ref 2
   partition of ref 1
   salt tax revolt ref 1
   and Second World War ref 1
   war between Mughals and Marathas ref 1
   Indian Mutiny (1857) ref 1
   Indian National Congress ref 1, ref 2
   indigenous peoples ref 1, see also aboriginal Australians; native Americans
   Indonesia ref 1
   indulgencies ref 1
   Indus ref 1
   industrial revolution ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   factory conditions and child labour ref 1
   Germany ref 1, ref 2
   and Luddites ref 1
   and nationalism ref 1
   negative impact of ref 1
   positive impact of ref 1
   reasons for starting in Britain ref 1, ref 2
   United States ref 1, ref 2
   and Watt’s steam engine ref 1, ref 2
   infant mortality ref 1
   Internet ref 1
   Inuit ref 1
   inventiveness ref 1
   Ionian revolt (499 BC) ref 1, ref 2
   Ionic ref 1
   Iran ref 1
   war with Iraq ref 1
   Iraq ref 1
   invasion of Kuwait ref 1
   post-war ref 1
   war with Iran ref 1
   Iraq war (2003) ref 1
   Ireland ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Easter Rising ref 1
   Elizabethan war against ref 1
   famines ref 1
   Iron Age ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Isabella see Ferdinand and Isabella
   Isis ref 1, ref 2
   Islam ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
   and Africa ref 1
   golden age of ref 1
   origins ref 1
   splits within ref 1
   spread of and early military success ref 1, ref 2
   see also Muslims
   Islamism ref 1, ref 2
   Israel ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
   Israelites ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Italy ref 1, ref 2
   city-republics ref 1
   and ‘Euro-communism’ ref 1
   and imperialism ref 1
   and Mussolini ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
   Renaissance ref 1, ref 2
   unification of ref 1
   Ivan III, the Great ref 1
   Ivan IV, the Terrible ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
   ivory ref 1
   Jackson, ‘Stonewall’ ref 1
   Jacobin Club ref 1
   Jacobins ref 1, ref 2
   Jacobite rebellion (1745) ref 1
   Jagiellon dynasty ref 1, ref 2
   Jahan, Shah ref 1
   Jahangir ref 1
   Jamaica ref 1
   James, C.L.R. ref 1
   James I ( James VI of Scotland), King ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
   ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’ ref 1
   James II, King ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, 
ref 4
   Janszoon, Jan ref 1
   Japan/Japanese ref 1, ref 2
   ban on smoking ref 1
   comparison with Britain ref 1
   conversion to Christianity by missionaries ref 1
   culture ref 1
   and First World War ref 1
   Hideyoshi years ref 1
   invasions of China ref 1, ref 2
   Meiji restoration and reform ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   outlawing of Christianity ref 1
   Pearl Harbor attack ref 1
   peasant revolt in Kyushu (1637) ref 1
   resolving of environmental problems ref 1
   sakoku (‘locked-country’) policy ref 1
   and samurai ref 1, ref 2
   samurai rebellion ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   ships ref 1, ref 2
   and tobacco ref 1
   Tokugawa ref 1, ref 2
   and trade ref 1
   Jardine, Lisa ref 1
   Jaspers, Karl ref 1
   Java/Javanese ref 1, ref 2
   Jefferson, Thomas ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
   Jenner, Edward ref 1
   Jeremiah ref 1
   Jericho ref 1, ref 2
   Jerusalem ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   and Crusaders ref 1
   fall of to Arabs (638) ref 1
   siege of (70) ref 1
   siege of (586) ref 1
   Jesuits ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7
   Jesus Christ ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
   Jews ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
   and afterlife ref 1
   and anti-Semitism ref 1
   Babylonian exile ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   expansion of communities ref 1, ref 2
   and Hellenistic culture ref 1
   and Holocaust ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
   Maccabee revolt against Seleucid Greeks ref 1
   proselytizing ref 1
   releasing of from exile by Cyrus ref 1
   revolt against Rome ref 1
   Jiang Qing ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Jin dynasty ref 1, ref 2
   Jinnah, Mohammad Ali ref 1
   Joanna the Mad ref 1, ref 2
   John Paul II, Pope ref 1
   Johnson, Lyndon B. ref 1
   Johnson, Samuel ref 1
   Jones, Sir William ref 1
   Jordanes ref 1
   Josiah, King ref 1
   Joyce, James ref 1
   Judah ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
   Judaism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, 163 see also Jews
   Judas Maccabeus ref 1
   Jupiter ref 1
   Justinian, Emperor ref 1
   Kabukimono ref 1
   Kahr, Gustav Ritter von ref 1
   Kalinga ref 1
   Karakorum ref 1, ref 2
   Kasparov, Garry ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
   Keay, John ref 1
   Keneally, Thomas ref 1
   Kennedy, John F. ref 1
   Kenya ref 1
   Kerensky, Alexander ref 1
   Kershaw, Ian ref 1
   Khasakhemwy, King ref 1
   Khazars ref 1, ref 2
   Kholmsky, Prince ref 1
   Khomeini, Ayatollah ref 1
   Khrushchev, Nikita ref 1, ref 2
   Khwarezmid empire ref 1
   al-Khwarmi, Muhammad ref 1
   Kilby, Jack ref 1
   Kim Il Sung ref 1
   King, Gregory ref 1
   King James Bible ref 1
   King, Martin Luther ref 1
   Kissinger, Henry ref 1
   Klu Klux Klan ref 1
   Knossos, palace of ref 1
   Knox, John ref 1
   Koh-i-Noor diamond ref 1
   Kongzi see Confucius
   Koran ref 1
   Korea ref 1, ref 2
   Korean War ref 1, ref 2
   Kosovo, battle of (1389) ref 1
   Kublai Khan ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Kuchum Khan ref 1, ref 2
   kulaks ref 1, ref 2
   Kuomintang ref 1, ref 2
   Kurzweil, Ray ref 1
   Kush ref 1
   Kuwait ref 1
   Kyushu ref 1
   Lachish ref 1
   Landes, David ref 1
   Langland, William
   Piers Plowman ref 1
   language ref 1, ref 2
   Lao Ali ref 1
   Las Casas, Bartolomé de ref 1, ref 2
   Las Navas de Tolosa, battle of (1212) ref 1
   Lascaux caves ref 1
   League of Nations ref 1
   Lebanon ref 1
   LeBlanc, Stephen ref 1
   Lecky, W.E.H. ref 1
   Lecouvreur, Adrienne ref 1
   Lee, Robert E. ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van ref 1
   Legalism ref 1
   Leipzig, battle of (Battle of the Nations) ref 1
   Lenin, Vladimir Ilich ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
   Leo III, Pope ref 1
   Leo X, Pope ref 1
   Leonardo da Vinci ref 1, ref 2
   The Last Supper ref 1
   Leonidas, King ref 1
   Leopold I, King of the Belgians ref 1
   Leopold II, King of the Belgians ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Lepanto, battle of (1571) ref 1
   Les Rois (France) ref 1
   Li Hongzhang ref 1
   Li Zicheng ref 1
   Licinius, Emperor ref 1
   life expectancy ref 1
   Lin Biao ref 1
   Lin Zexu ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
   Lincoln, Abraham ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
   assassination ref 1
   Gettysburg Address ref 1
   Linear B script ref 1
   Lisbon earthquake (1755) ref 1
   Lithuania ref 1
   Little Big Horn, battle of (1876) ref 1
   Litvinov, Maxim ref 1
   Liu Shaoqi ref 1, ref 2
   Livingstone, David ref 1, ref 2
   Lloyd George, David ref 1, ref 2
   Lombards ref 1