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A

Addled Parliament

Anglian Ice Age

Atlantic Period

Australopithecine

Australopithecines

B

Beestonian Stage

Belleville breviary

British Expeditionary Force

C

Canterbury Tales

Collective consciousness

Colony of Natal

Commons Journal

Confessio Amantis

Conspicuous consumption

Creeping barrage

Cromerian Stage

Cultural construct

D

Decree absolute

Dendrochronology

Devensian Ice Age

Dissociative identity disorder

Dissolution of the Monasteries

E

Enfranchisement

Eustatic uplift

Excommunication

Experimental Archaeology

e

eastern seaboard

É

École Militaire

F

Foundation myths

G

General Certificate in Secondary Education

Geophysical Surveying

Grand Remonstrance

H

Happisburgh Glaciation

Harrying of the North

Hides, hundreds, and shires

Holocene Optimum

Holy Roman Empire

I

Independent means

Isostatic uplift

Isotope analysis

J

Jack Cade Rebellion

Justification by faith alone

K

Knights Hospitallers

L

Last Glacial Maximum

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

Long Parliament

Lower Palaeolithic

M

Marxist historians

Middle Palaeolithic

Mitochondrial DNA

Morganatic marriage

Motte-and-bailey

Muggletonianism

m

N

Napoleonic Wars

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

Noblesse d'épée

Non-aggression pact

O

Operation Barbarossa

Operation Valkyrie

P

Pakefield interglacial

Palaeoclimatology

Pals battalions

Papal dispensation

Parliamentarian

Parliamentarians

Petition of Right

Pilgrimage of Grace

Pitched battles

Potassium/argon dating

Precession of the Equinoxes

Prerogative finance

Prince of the blood

Purfleet interglacial

Put in the stocks

Pyrrhic victory

Q

R

Radiocarbon dating

Redress before supply

ReichsfÃ¼hrer

Relative dating

Renaissance man

Royal supremacy

Rump Parliament

S

Salem Witch Trials

Second World War

Secondary source

Secondary sources

Seventh Coalition

Summarily executed

Suspension of disbelief

Sweating sickness

T

Tenants-in-chief

The Milankovitch Cycles

The Reformation

Thermoluminescence

Transubstantiation

Troilus and Criseyde

Tunnage and poundage

U

Upper Palaeolithic

V

W

Wall Street Crash

War of attrition

War of the Spanish Succession

Weimar Republic

Windermere Interstadial

Wolstonian Stage

Women's Social and Political Union

Wyatt Rebellion

Y

Fact of the Day

It is rumoured that the Queen Mother once went to Westminster Abbey after hours only to find them rehearsing her funeral.

Quote of the Day

"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it."

~ Oscar Wilde

On This Day

1598 Playwright Ben Jonson was put on trial for manslaughter after killing fellow actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel.

1692 The last people accused of practicing witchcraft in Salem were hanged.

1735 Robert Walpole became the first British Prime Minister to occupy 10 Downing Street.