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Stalin, Iosif ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
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Stamp Tax ref 1
Statute of Marlborough ref 1
Stephen, King ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Stephen, William fitz ref 1, ref 2
Stephens, James ref 1
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Stigand, Archbishop ref 1, ref 2
Stirling Bridge, Battle of ref 1
Stockmar, Baron ref 1
Strabo ref 1
Strachey, William ref 1
Stuart, Charles Edward (Bonnie Prince Charlie) ref 1
Stuart, James Edward (Old Pretender) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5; see also Jacobites
Stukeley, Thomas ref 1
Sudan ref 1, ref 2
Sudetendland ref 1
Suetonius ref 1
Suez Canal ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Sunday Schools ref 1
Sunderland, Earl of ref 1, ref 2
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Swift, Jonathan ref 1
Switzerland ref 1
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Tahiti ref 1
Tasmania ref 1
taxation ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12, ref 13; see also Britain: income tax in
Taylor, Jeremy ref 1
tenant farming ref 1
Territorial Army ref 1
Test Acts ref 1, ref 2
Tewdwr, Rhys ap ref 1
textile industry ref 1
Textus Roffensis ref 1
Thackeray, William ref 1
Thatcher, Margaret ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Theobald, Archbishop ref 1
Thirty Years War ref 1
Thirty-Nine Articles ref 1
Thistlewood, Arthur ref 1
Thomas, Earl of Lancaster of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester ref 1, ref 2
Times, first edition of ref 1
Tinchebrai, Battle of ref 1
Tirel, Walter ref 1
tobacco ref 1
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Togodumnus ref 1
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Toleration Acts ref 1
toll roads ref 1
Tolpuddle Martyrs ref 1, ref 2
Tone, Wolfe ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Tories ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10
associations of ref 1
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and Corn Laws ref 1
and Emancipation ref 1, ref 2
thought of as Conservatives ref 1
Torrington, Lord ref 1
Tostig ref 1
Townshend, Charles ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Towton, Battle of ref 1
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Troy, Thomas ref 1
Trueman, Harry ref 1
Tudor, Margaret ref 1
Tull, Jethro ref 1
Turkey ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Tyler, Wat ref 1, ref 2
Tyrell, James ref 1
Tyrwhitt, Thomas ref 1
Ulster ref 1, ref 2
see also Ireland; Northern Ireland
Ulster experiment ref 1
United Irishmen ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
United States of America:
Declaration of Independence of ref 1
first president of ref 1
Irish migration to ref 1
and Monroe Doctrine ref 1
New Deal of ref 1
and War of 1812 ref 1
and World Wars, see First World War; Second World War
see also North America
USSR ref 1
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Valentinian ref 1
Vaughan, Henry ref 1
Vere, Robert de ref 1
Vesey-FitzGerald, William ref 1
Vetch, Col. Samuel ref 1
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Vietnam ref 1
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Walpole, Catherine ref 1, ref 2
Walpole, Horace ref 1, ref 2
Walpole, Robert ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Walsingham, Francis ref 1
Walter, Archbishop Hubert ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Walter, John ref 1
Walworth, William ref 1
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War of 1812 ref 1
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Warbeck, Perkin ref 1
Wars of the Roses ref 1, ref 2
Warwick, Earl of ref 1
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Washington, George ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Waterloo, Battle of ref 1, ref 2
Watson-Wentworth, Charles, Marquess of Rockingham ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Watt, James ref 1
Wedgwood, Josiah ref 1
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Wesley, Charles ref 1
Wesley, John ref 1
West Indies ref 1, ref 2
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West, Thomas ref 1
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Wilkes, John ref 1, ref 2
Wilkinson, Ellen ref 1
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Wollstonecraft, Mary ref 1
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Wolsey, Thomas ref 1, ref 2
women’s suffrage ref 1
Woodstock, Edmund, Earl of Kent ref 1
Woodville, Elizabeth ref 1, ref 2
wool ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Workers’ Educational Association ref 1
workhouses ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Wotton, Edward ref 1
Wren, Christopher ref 1
Wyclif, John ref 1, ref 2
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York, Treaty of ref 1
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