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)
learning and scholarship
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
magistrates
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
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
Marlowe, Christopher
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
polo
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
Renaissanc
e 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
Rump Parliament
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
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