British History Displayed de Margaret M. Elliot

British History Displayed: 1688–1950

Margaret M. Elliot

Originally published in 1955, this book was originally intended to provide a general framework for one year's syllabus of history teaching in secondary schools. Elliot covers British and European history from the end of the seventeenth century until the end of the Second World War, illustrating the text with drawings, photographs and maps showing important military campaigns, events, people and fashion trends. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in British history and the history of education.

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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.