by Melvyn Bragg
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Bragg, Melvyn, The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language, Sceptre, 2004
Bragg, Melvyn, 12 Books That Changed the World, Hodder & Stoughton, 2006
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Crystal, David, Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language, OUP, 2010
Daniell, David, The Bible in English: Its History and Influence, YUP, 2003
Davies, Julian, The Caroline Captivity of the Church: Charles I and the Remoulding of Anglicanism 1625 – 41, Clarendon Press, 1992
Dawkins, Richard, The God Delusion, Bantam, 2006
Fox, John, ‘The Influence of the English Bible on Literature’, Princeton Theological Review, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1911
Harris, Sam, Letter to a Christian Nation, Bantam, 2007
Harrison, Eugene Myers, Blazing the Missionary Trail, Chicago, Ill.: Scripture Press Book Division, 1949
Hill, Christopher, The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution, Penguin Books, 1993
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Mayhew, Henry, London Labour and the London Poor, Penguin Classics, 2006
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McGrath, Alister, In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How it Changed a Nation, a Language and a Culture, Hodder & Stoughton, 2002
Middleton, Richard, Colonial America: A History, 1565 – 1776, Blackwell, 2000
Miller, Randall M. (ed.), Religion and the American Civil War, OUP, 1998
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Nicolson, Adam, God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, HarperCollins, 2003
Noll, Mark, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, University of North Carolina Press, 2006
Norton, David, A Textual History of the King James Bible, CUP, 2005
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Taylor, Alan, American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Penguin, 2001
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WEBSITES
http://www.tyndale.org/TSJ/3/mansbridge.html
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga
http://www.educationengland.org.uk/history/chaptero1.html
http://www.natsoc.org.uk/society/history/
http://www.gideons.org
http://www.biblesociety.org.uk
http://www.usccgettysburg.org/
http://www.av1611.org/kjv/reagan.html
http://www.ymca.net
INDEX
‘KJB’ indicated the King James Bible.
Abel
abortion
Abraham
Abravanel, Isaac ben
Adam
Adams, John
Addams, Jane
adultery
Africa
African Methodist Episcopal Church
African-Americans
Ahab, King
Alcott, Louisa May
Alfred the Great
All About Eve (film)
Allestree, Richard
‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’
America
the Bible and literature
Great Awakenings
missionaries in
new world founded
slavery and civil war
American Bible Society
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
American Civil War
American English
American Indians see also Native Americans
American Social Gospel movement
American War of Independence (1775 – 83)
Andrewes, Launcelot, Dean of
Anglican Church see also Church of England
Anglican Young People’s Association
Anglo-Saxon
Annesley, Reverend Samuel
Anti-Slavery Society
Antwerp
Antwerp Polyglot (1572)
Apocrypha
Aquinas, St Thomas
Aramaic
Aristotle
Arnold, Matthew
Arundel, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury
Astell, Mary
Athelstane, King
Auden, W.H.
Augustine, St
Austen, Jane
Australia
Australian Aboriginals
Authorised Version see King James Bible
Babylon
Bacon, Francis
Baker, David
Ball, John
Balzac, Honoré de
Bancroft, Bishop (later Archbishop)
Banks, Joseph
Baptists
Barker, Robert
Barker, Thomas
Bathsheba
Bay Psalm Book, The
‘Be fruitful and multiply’
Beatitudes
Beauregard, General Pierre
Beckett, Samuel
Bede, Venerable
Bega, Theodore
Beresford family
Bible, the
use in the Civil War
first version in English (1382)
‘interpretations’
Latin translations
a pit of fertile contradictions
popularity and influence at its height
power of
and sex
a well of adaptable wisdom
the word ‘bible’
Bible Society
Bible Women
Big Bang
Bill of Rights
Bishops’ Bible (1568)
black Churches
Blake, William
Bliss, W.D.P.
Bloom, Harold
Bloom, Paul
Blunden, Edmund
Boaz
Bobrick, Benson
Boleyn, Anne
Book of Common Prayer
Booth, Catherine
Booth, William
Bourne, George
Bowdler, Dr Thomas
Boyd, Sir Robert
Boyle, Robert
Bradford, William: Of Plymouth Plantation
Brinsley, John: The Third Part of the True Watch
British and Foreign Bible Society
British Empire
Brontë, Charlotte
Brontë sisters
Brophy, Brigid
Broughton, Hugh
Brown, Antoinette
Brown, George Gordon
Bryson, Bill
Buckingh
am, Duchess of
Buddhism
Bunyan, John
Burgess, Cornelius
Burke, Edmund
Burton, Richard
Butler, Josephine
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Cabbala
Cain
Calvin, John
Calvinism, Calvinists
‘Cambridge Seven’
Cambridge University
Campbell, Brian
Campbell, Isabella and Mary
Canaan
Canaanites
Canterbury, Archbishops of
Simon Sudbury
Thomas Arundel
Thomas Cranmer
Carey, William
Case, Thomas
Castalio, Sebastain
Cavafy, Constantine
Cavaliers
Caxton, William
Cecil, Robert
Celts
Chalmers, James
charity
Charity Organisation Society (later Family Action)
Charles I, King
Charles II, King
Chaucer, Geoffrey Canterbury Tales
Cheke, Sir John
child abuse by Roman Catholic priests
China
China Inland Mission
Choral Evensong
Christian, Fletcher
Christian Brethren see also Lollards
Christian Commission
Christian Evidence Society
Christian Socialists
Church Mission Society
Church of England see also Anglican Church
Church schools
Churchill, Sir Winston
Civic Trust
Civil Rights Movement
Clarkson, Thomas
Co-operative Movement
Codrington Plantation, Barbados
Coke, Sir Edward
Coke, Reverend Thomas
Colenso, John William, Bishop of Natal
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
Collinges, John
Cologne
Commonwealth
Complutensian Polyglot (1517)
Confederate Army
Congregationalists
Constantine, Emperor
Contagious Diseases Act
contraception
Conway, Lady Ann
Cook, Albert Stansborough
Cook, Captain James
Cook Islands
Cook, Professor Albert Stanborough
Cooper, Dr Lane
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Cotton, John
Counter-Reformation
Coverdale, Miles
Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury
Crick, Francis
Cripps, Stafford
Cromwell, Oliver
Cromwell, Thomas
Crystal, David
Culverwell, Nathaniel
Cunningham, Valentine
Damasus, Pope
Dame schools
Daniell, David
Darwin, Charles
David and Goliath
David and Jonathan
Davis, David
Davis, Jefferson
Dawkins, Richard
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Defoe, Daniel
Delilah
democracy
Descartes, René
Dickens, Charles
Diggers
Diodati, Giovanni
Dirac, Paul
Disciples churches
Dissenters
Dissenting Protestantism
Divine Right of Kings
Dobneck, John
Doddridge, Philip
Donne, John
Douay-Rheims New Testament (1582)
Dryden, John
dualism
Duff (mission ship)
Duns Scotus, Blessed John
Early Modern English
East India Company
Ecclesiastical Commissioners
Eddington, Arthur
Edinburgh University
education
Edward VI, King
Edwards, John
Edwards, Jonathan
Edwards, Sarah
Egypt
Einstein, Albert
Elementary Education Act (1870)
Eliot, George
Eliot, T.S.
Elizabeth I, Queen
Elizabeth II, Queen
Engels, Friedrich
English Civil War (1642 – 51)
Enlightenment
Episcopal churches
Erasmus, Desiderius
Essex, Barbara J.
Esther
eternal life
ethnic cleansing
Eve
Faraday, Michael
Farrer, Austin
Fast Sermons
Faulkner, William
Fell, Margaret
Feuerbach, Ludwig
Field, John
Fifth Monarchists
First Cambridge Company
First Cause
First Oxford Company
First Westminster Company
First World War
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flanders, Battle of
fornication
Fox, Charles James
Foxe, John: Book of Martyrs
Franklin, Benjamin
Frei, Hans
French Bibles
French Revolution
Friendly Societies
Froude, James Anthony
Fuseli, Henry
Galileo Galilei
Garden of Eden
Gardner, Bishop John
Geneva Bible (1560)
German Bible
Germanic tribes
Gettysburg Address
Gibbon, Edward
Gideon Society
Gilby, Anthony
Gillard, Derek
Gilmour, James
Ginsberg, Allen
Glorious Revolution (1688)
Gloucester, Bishop of
Gnostic Gospels
Godwin, William
Golding, William
Google search engine
Goostree gentlemen’s club
gospel songs
Gospels: Alfred the Great has them translated
Grant, James Augustus
Graves, Robert
Great Awakenings
Great Bible (1539)
Great Indian Rebellion (1857)
Greek language
Greenblatt, Stephen
Grey, Earl
Grotius, Hugo
Gurney, Ivor
Guy Fawkes Day
Hagar
Hague, William
Haldane, J.B.S.
Hamburg
Hamilton, Edith
Hampton Court
Hampton Court Conference
Handel, George Frideric
Hardie, Keir
Hardinge, John
Hardy, Thomas
Harrington, James
Harris, Richard, former Bishop of Oxford
Harrison, Peter
Harvard University
Hawking, Stephen
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Haynes, Alex
Hazleton, Lesley
Hebrew language
Henrietta Maria, Queen
Henry V, King
Henry VIII, King
Hill, Christopher
Hill, Octavia
Hill, Samuel S.
Hinduism
Hobbes, Thomas
Hogarth, William
Hogg, James
Holland, Thomas
Holocaust
Holofernes
Holy Club
Holy Roman Empire
Holy Trinity church, Stratford-upon-Avon 140 – 41
homosexuality
Hong Xiuquan
Hooke, Robert
Hooker, Thomas
Horsley, Bishop Samuel
Hosea
House of Commons
Houses of Parliament
Howe, William
Howland, John
Hull, east Yorkshire
Hull House, Chicago, Illinois
Hume, David
Hunter, J. Paul
illiteracy
incest
India
Indian languages
Industrial Revolution
International League of Religious Socialists
Ireton, Henry
Isaac
Ishmael
Islam
Jackson, Mahalia
Jacob
James I, King
a biblical scholar
childhood
crowned in Westminster Abbey
and Divine Right of Kings
and the Geneva Bible
inspires the KJB
as James VI of Scotland
journey from Edinburgh to London
persecutor of witches
rules for the KJB
succeeded by son Charles
James II, King
Jamestown, Virginia
Japan
Jasper, David
Jefferson, Thomas
Jehoichim, King
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jepthah
Jeremiah
Jerome, St
Jerusalem Chamber, Abbey House, Westminster, London
Jesuits
Jesus Christ
and Mary Magdalene
pamphlet attacks as an ‘imposter’
teaching mission
Jewel, Bishop John
Jews
Cabbala
destruction of Jerusalem
expelled from the Iberian Peninsula
Thomas Paine on
Jezebel
John, St
Johnson, Joseph
Johnson, Dr Samuel
Jones, David
Joseph of Arimathea
Josiah, King
Joyce, James
Judaism
Judith
Judo, Leo
Kant, Immanuel
Kelvin, Lord
Kepler, Johannes
King, Martin Luther
King James Bible
and American English
Bancroft’s fourteen changes
becomes the sole Bible in churches
and Church of England schools
claimed to be the most pivotal book ever written
consists of sixty-six different ‘books’
