The World’s Story Volume X: England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales

The World’s Story Volume X: England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales
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001 - Elizabeth signing the death warrant of Mary, Queen of Scots, by Julius Schrader, German painter 1815-1900, painting frontispiece
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  • 1

    001 - Elizabeth signing the death warrant of Mary, Queen of Scots, by Julius Schrader, German painter 1815-1900, painting frontispiece

  • 2

    002 - England Part I: The Stuart Kings: Historical note

  • 3

    003 - King James I and his goldsmith (between 1603 and 1624), by Sir Walter Scott

  • 4

    004 - The gunpowder plot (1605), by David Hume

  • 5

    005 - A charge with prince Rupert (1643), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  • 6

    006 - Sir Nicholas at Marston Moor (1644), by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  • 7

    007 - The battle of Naseby by Obadiah Bind-their-kings-in-chains-and-their-nobles-with-links-of-iron, sergeant in Ireton's regiment (1645), by Thomas Babington Macaulay

  • 8

    008 - Charles I insulted by soldiers, by Paul Delaroche, French painter 1797-1856, painting p. 46

  • 9

    009 - England Part II: The rule of Oliver Cromwell: Historical note

  • 10

    010 - The trial and execution of king Charles I (1649), by Jacob Abbott

  • 11

    011 - Cromwell in Whitehall, by Julius Schrader, Germany, 1815-1900, painting p. 60

  • 12

    012 - A royalist description of Cromwell's men, by Samuel Butler

  • 13

    013 - How Cromwell dissolved parliament (1653), by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot

  • 14

    014 - Praise-God Barebone's parliament (1653), by Edward, Earl of Clarendon

  • 15

    015 - Cromwell visiting Milton, by David Neal, American artist 1837, painting p. 74

  • 16

    016 - England Part III: From the Restoration to the House of Hanover: Historical note

  • 17

    017 - In the days of the plague (1665), by Daniel Defoe

  • 18

    018 - The fall of ''King Monmouth'' (1685), by Charles Dickens

  • 19

    019 - The song of the western men (1688), by Robert Stephen Hawker

  • 20

    020 - James II receiving the news of the landing of the Prince of Orange, by Edward Mathew Ward, English artist 1816-1879, painting p. 92

  • 21

    021 - A campaign under Marlborough, by William Makepeace Thackeray

  • 22

    022 - The government in quest of a poet, by William Makepeace Thackeray

  • 23

    023 - Sunday with Sir Roger, by Joseph Addison

  • 24

    024 - England Part IV: England under the first three Georges: Historical note

  • 25

    025 - The vicar of Bray, by Author unknown

  • 26

    026 - The ''Bubbles'' of the reign of King George I (1720), by Charles Mackay

  • 27

    027 - When George II became king, by William Makepeace Thackeray

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    028 - The funeral of George II (1760), by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford

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    029 - Dr. Johnson in the anteroom of Lord Chesterfield, by E. M. Ward, English artist 1816-1879, painting p. 136

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    030 - William Pitt and the Stamp Act (1766), by George Bancroft

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    031 - The quarrel of Squire Bull and his son (1775 to 1783), by James Kirke Paulding

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    032 - A maid of honor at the court of George III (1786), by Madame d'Arblay

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    033 - The royal visit to Oxford (1786), by Madame d'Arblay

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    034 - England Part V: The Napoleonic wars: Historical note

  • 35

    035 - The battle of the Baltic (101), by Thomas Campbell

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    036 - Trafalgar (1805), by William C. Bennett

  • 37

    037 - The burial of Sir John Moore (1809), by Charles Wolfe

  • 38

    038 - Wellington's march from Quatre-Bras to Waterloo, by Ernest Crofts, English painter 1847, painting p. 174

  • 39

    039 - Just before Waterloo (1815), by William Makepeace Thackeray

  • 40

    040 - Waterloo (1815), by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

  • 41

    041 - ''Scotland forever !'', by Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson), English artist 1844, painting p. 186

  • 42

    042 - England Part VI: The last hundred years in England: Historical note

  • 43

    043 - When Victoria became Queen (1837), by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

  • 44

    044 - The charge of the light brigade (1854), by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  • 45

    045 - Balaclava, by Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson), English artist 1844, painting p. 194

  • 46

    046 - Santa Filomena (1854-1856), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • 47

    047 - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), by L. F. Jennings

  • 48

    048 - Gladstone's fight for home rule (1893), from the Atlantic Monthly

  • 49

    049 - The latest English revolution (1911), from the Outlook

  • 50

    050 - The coronation of George V (1911), by Sydney Brooks

  • 51

    051 - Scotland Part I: Ballads and legends of Early Scotland: Historical note

  • 52

    052 - Legends of St. Columba (563 ?), by Adamnan, ninth abbot of the Ionian Monastery

  • 53

    053 - The murder of King Duncan (1040), by William Shakespeare

  • 54

    054 - The invasion of the Norsemen (1263), by Charles Mackay

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    055 - Sir Patrick Spens, an old ballad

  • 56

    056 - Scotland Part II: Two Scottish heroes: Historical note

  • 57

    057 - The capture of William Wallace (1305), by Jane Porter

  • 58

    058 - The coronation of Robert Bruce (1306), by Grace Aguilar

  • 59

    059 - Bruce at Bannockburn (1314), by P. Hume Brown

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    060 - Scots wha hae, by Robert Burns

  • 61

    061 - Scotland Part III: To the death of Mary: Historical note

  • 62

    062 - The bier-right (latter part of the fourteenth century), by Sir Walter Scott

  • 63

    063 - How the Scots lived while James I was king (1422-1437), by P. Hume Brown

  • 64

    064 - On the Field of Flodden (1513), by Sir Walter Scott

  • 65

    065 - Edinburgh after Flodden Field (1513), by William E. Aytoun

  • 66

    066 - ''The goodman of Ballangiech'' (between 1513 and 1542), by Sir Walter Scott

  • 67

    067 - John Knox preaching before the lords of the congregation, by Sir David Wilkie, English artist 1785-1841, painting p. 334

  • 68

    068 - The flight of Mary, Queen of Scots, to England (1568), by Sir Walter Scott

  • 69

    069 - Sacking a church in the time of John Knox, by John Prescott Knight, English artist 1803-1881, painting p. 336

  • 70

    070 - The fate of Mary, Queen of Scots (1587), by Sir Walter Scott

  • 71

    071 - Scotland Part IV: A century of unrest: Historical note

  • 72

    072 - Why Jenny Geddes threw her stool at the dean, by ''Grace Greenwood'' (Sara J. Lippincott)

  • 73

    073 - Gathering song of Donald the Black, by Sir Walter Scott

  • 74

    074 - The execution of Montrose (1650), by William E. Aytoun

  • 75

    075 - The burial march of Dundee (1689), by William E. Aytoun

  • 76

    076 - The massacre of Glencoe (1692), by P. Hume Brown

  • 77

    077 - A rescue at the battle of Prestonpans (1745), by Sir Walter Scott

  • 78

    078 - The order of release, by Sir John Everett Millais, English painter 1829-1896, painting p. 388

  • 79

    079 - How Flora MacDonald saved Prince Charlie (1745), by Charles Sanford Terry

  • 80

    080 - Ireland Part I: The golden age of Erin: Historical note

  • 81

    081 - Oisin in Tir na n-Og, an Irish folk-story

  • 82

    082 - The chase of Slieve Cullinn, an old Irish legend

  • 83

    083 - The story of St. Patrick (fifth century), by Patrick Weston Joyce

  • 84

    084 - The ''island of saints and scholars'', (seventh and eighth centuries), by Patrick Weston Joyce

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    085 - O'Rourke's tower and great cross, Clonmacnoise, photograph p. 434

  • 86

    086 - The book of Kells (seventh century), by Charles Johnston and Carita Spencer

  • 87

    087 - How Brian Boru held the ford of Tribute (941), by E. S. Brooks

  • 88

    088 - Ireland Part II: Six centuries of oppression: Historical note

  • 89

    089 - The house of the Geraldines, by Justin H. McCarthy

  • 90

    090 - The Geraldines, by Thomas Davis

  • 91

    091 - The vengeance of Cromwell (1649), by Oliver Cromwell

  • 92

    092 - After the rebellion of 1641 (1653), by Mrs. E. M. Field

  • 93

    093 - The siege of Londonderry (1689), by Thomas Babington Macaulay

  • 94

    094 - The battle of the Boyne (1690), by Thomas Babington Macaulay

  • 95

    095 - The wearin' o' the Green (1798)

  • 96

    096 - Emmet's grave, by Justin F. McCarthy

  • 97

    097 - The harp that once through Tara's halls, by Thomas Moore

  • 98

    098 - Ireland Part III: Ireland and her people: Historical note

  • 99

    099 - The ''Grand Canal Hotel'', by Charles Lever

  • 100

    100 - An Irish school (early part of the nineteenth century), by Gerald Griffin

  • 101

    101 - The winning back of the land (1808-1903), by Charles Johnston and Carita Spencer

  • 102

    102 - An Irish cottage, photograph p. 544

  • 103

    103 - The Irish people (twentieth century), by Katharine Tynan

  • 104

    104 - Wales Part I: Legends of Wales: Historical note

  • 105

    105 - King Arthur, by Bessie Raynor Parkes

  • 106

    106 - The dream of Maxen Wledig, from the Mabinogion

  • 107

    107 - Beth Gelert; or the grave of the greyhound (about 1220), by William Robert Spencer

  • 108

    108 - The wearing of leek, an old song translated from the Welsh, by Henry Davies

  • 109

    109 - Wales Part II: Stories of the Welsh rebellions: Historical note

  • 110

    110 - How the Welsh kept the Christmas of 1115, by Sabine Baring-Gould

  • 111

    111 - ''When the eighteen fell'' (1282), by Owen Rhoscomyl

  • 112

    112 - The rebellion of Owen Glyndwr (1402-1415), by Owen Rhoscomyl

  • 113

    113 - The march of the men of Harlech (1468), national Cambrian war-song; translated by John Oxenford

  • 114

    114 - How a Welshman became king of England (1485), by Owen Rhoscomyl

  • 115

    115 - Wales Part III: Scenes of Welsh life: Historical note

  • 116

    116 - The Eisteddfod, by Jeannette Marks

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