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From Julius Caesars arrival in 55 BC to the dawn of the third millennium, here are 300 accounts of exciting and important moments from first hand sources. Featuring snapshots of wartime, political and social unrest, natural disasters, and great individual achievements, plus vignettes of social life - from cockfighting in Tudor inns to a Victorian Sunday in the country. The book includes the Battle of Hastings in 1066; the execution in 1649 of Charles I; an account of the Great Fire of London, 1666; the death of Lord Nelson at Trafalgar, 1805; Wellingtons triumph at Waterloo, 1815; the 1912 Antarctic Expedition: the last letters of Captain Scott; Frank Richards 1914 account of Christmas in the trenches; the Battle of Britain in 1940; England winning the World Cup, 1966; and the death of the Princess of Wales in 1997 - and much more.

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The Mammoth Book of
How It Happened
IN BRITAIN
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The Mammoth Book of
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IN BRITAIN
Edited by
JON E. LEWIS
ROBINSON
London
For Tristram, Freda and Penny

Constable & Robinson Ltd
5556 Russell Square
London WC1B 4HP
www.constablerobinson.com

First published in the UK by Robinson,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2001

Collection and editorial material copyright J. Lewis-Stempel 2001

All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in
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ISBN 1841191329
eISBN 9781780337289

Printed and bound in the EU

CONTENTS

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Cornelius Tacitus

Cornelius Tacitus

Anon

Saint Gildas

Gregory I

Bede

Eddius Stephanus

Saint Boniface

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Asser

Alfred the Great

Asser

Anon

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Henry of Huntingdon

William of Malmesbury

William of Poitiers

Simeon of Durham

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Anon

Anon

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

William of Malmesbury

William of Malmesbury

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

William of Newburgh

Peter of Blois

William of Newburgh

John of Salisbury

Edward Grim

William Fitz-Stephen

Gerald of Wales

Gerald of Wales

Anon

Roger of Hoveden

Beha-ed-Din

Roger of Wendover

Jocelin of Brakelond

Roger of Wendover

Matthew Paris

Matthew Paris

Calendar of Inquisitions

Calendar of the Coroners Rolls

Matthew of Westminster

Friar Barton

Anon

Sir John Froissart

Henry Knighton

Robert of Avesbury

John of Arderne

William Langland

City of London Letter-Book

Sir John Froissart

The Bishop of London

Customal of the Manor of Islip

William of Wykeham,
Bishop of Winchester

Adam of Usk

Jehan de Wavrin

Anon

Anon

Joan of Arc

John Russell

George Chastellain

Gabriel Tetzel

Margery Brews

Polydore Vergil

Polydore Vergil

Raimondo de Soncino

Sebastian Giustinian

George Cavendish

Henry VIII

Archbishop Cranmer

Lord Edmund Howard

John London, John Ap Rice, Richard Layton, Geoffrey Chamber, Roger Townsend

John Elder

John Foxe

A Bystander

John Highfield

Elizabeth I

Lord Ruthven

Miles Phillips

Captain John Smith

John Aubrey

Philip Stubbes

A Government Agent

Thomas Heriot

Friar William Weston

R. K. Wynkfielde

Lord Howard of Effingham

Richard Tomson

Captain Francisco De Cuellar

Lady Mildmay

Sir Walter Raleigh

Father John Gerard

The Lord Mayor and Alderman of London

Andr Hurault

Sir Robert Carey

Guy Fawkes

Sir Anthony Weldon

Gervase Markham

Fynes Moryson

John Aubrey

Sir Dudley Carleton

Sir Philip Warwick

John Rushworth

Nehemiah Wharton

C. H.

Oliver Cromwell

Robert Crotchett

Oliver Cromwell

Court Records

John Evelyn

John Evelyn

Dr Stukeley

Anon

John Ellis and Charles II

John Evelyn

Samuel Pepys

Sir Isaac Newton

Henry Teonge

John Evelyn

Anon

John Evelyn

Reverend Rowland Davies

Anon

John Bufton

Oliver Goldsmith

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