Aristotle
armed services; see also army
army; Coldstream Guards; Duke of Sutherland’s Fencibles; Guards regiments; Grenadier Guards; Guides Cavalry; 4th Hussars; 11th Hussars; 18th Hussars; 9th Lancers; 17th Lancers; Life Guards; 12th Light Dragoons; 13th Light Dragoons; 23rd Light Dragoons; Petworth Yeomanry; 17th Regiment; 57th Regiment; 63rd Regiment; 78th Regiment; Royal Horse Guards
Arran, Arthur Gore, first Earl of
Arran, Arthur Gore, ninth Earl of
Arthur, King; cult of
Arthur, Prince
artillery
Arundel, Archbishop
Arundel, Richard FitzAlan, Earl of
Arundel, Thomas Howard, second Earl of
Ascot
Ashby St Legers, first Lord
Asquith, Herbert
Association for the Preservation of Liberty and Property
Astrophel and Stella (Sidney)
Atholl, John Murray, fourth Duke of
Atholl, John Murray, seventh Duke of
Atholl, George Murray, tenth Duke of
Atholl, Walter Stewart, Earl of
Atholl, John Murray, Marquess of
attainders
Australia
Bacon, Sir Francis
Baden-Powell, General
Baird, Major Alexander
Balcarres, Colin Lindsay, third Earl of
Balfour, Arthur
Balfour of Burleigh, Lord
Ball, John
ballads
Ballot Act
Bankes, Thomas
Banks, John
Bannockburn, Battle of
Barebones Parliament
Barlow, Sir George
Barnet, Battle of
baronetcies
barons
Bateman, John, second Viscount
Bath, Henry Bourchier, fifth Earl of
Bath, John Thynne, fourth Marquess of
Bath, Henry Thynne, sixth Marquess of
Bath
Bayeaux Tapestry
Beauchamp family
Beaufort, ninth Duke of
Beaumont, Viscount
Bedford, George Neville, Duke of
Bedford, Francis Russell, fifth Duke of
Bedford, John Russell, sixth Duke of
Bedford, Herbrand Russell, eleventh Duke of
Bedford, Francis Russell, fourth Earl of
Beggar’s Opera, The (Gay)
Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle
Belvoir Castle
Bengal
Benn, Anthony Wedgwood
Bentinck, Lord George
Beresford, Admiral Lord Charles
Beresford, Lord William
Berkeley, Maurice, second Baron
Berkeley, Thomas (‘the Magnificent’), fifth Baron
Berkeley, William, first Marquess (and second Baron)
Berkeley, Sir John
Bertie, Charles
Betting Act
Bible
Bill of Rights
bishops
Black, Conrad
Black Act
Blair, Tony
Blenheim Palace
Blennerhassett, Sir Rowland
Blennerhassett, Rowland Ponsonby
Boke of St Albans, The
Bolingbroke, second Lord
Bontine, William
Bonville, Lord
Book Named the Governor, The (Elyot)
Boothby, Robert
Boroughbridge, Battle of
Borthwick, Lord
Boswell, Sir James
Bosworth, Battle of
Bourbon court
Bouvines, Battle of
boxing
Boycott, Captain Charles
Boyne, Battle of the
Brand, Thomas
Breadalbane, John Campbell, first Earl of
Brian Boru
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh)
Bridgewater, Earl and Countess of
Brighton
Bristol, John Digby, first Earl of
Bristol, John Hervey, first Earl of
British Empire
British Magazine
British nationalism
British Union of Fascists
Bromyard, Nicholas
Brooke, Robert, Lord
Buccleuch, Walter Scott, fifth Duke of
Buccleuch, William Scott, sixth Duke of
Buccleuch, John Scott, ninth Duke of
Buckingham, Humphrey Stafford, first Duke of
Buckingham, Henry Stafford, second Duke of
Buckingham, Edward Stafford, third Duke of
Buckingham, George Villiers, first Duke of
Buckingham, George Nugent-Grenville, Marquess of
Bullingdon Club
Burghley, William Cecil, Lord
Burke, Edmund
Burke’s Landed Gentry
Burke’s Peerage
Burton, Michael Bass, Lord
Cade, Jack
Cadogan, William, first Earl of
Cadogan, George, fifth Earl of
Cadwalader
Caerlaverock, siege of
Caister Castle
Caithness, Earl of
Calvinism
Cambridge University
Camelot
Cameron, David
Cameron of Lochiel, Donald
Campbell, General
Campbell, Lord
Campbell clan
Campden, Charles Noel, second Lord
Canada
Canning, George
Cannock Chase
capital offences
capitalism
Carleton, General Guy
Carlton Club
Carnarvon, Henry Herbert, fourth Earl of
Carnarvon, George Herbert, fifth Earl of
Carnwarth, ninth Earl of
Carrington, ‘Charlie’, first Lord
Carrington, Peter, sixth Lord
Castle Howard
Castlereagh, Viscount
castles
Catesby, William
cathedrals
Catherine the Great
Catholic Relief Act
Catholics and Catholicism; Catholic emancipation; and Exclusion crisis; and Glorious Revolution; and Irish aristocracy; and Jacobitism; and land ownership; and Restoration; and War of the Three Kingdoms
Cato Street Conspiracy
Cavalcade (Coward)
Cavendish, Lord Henry
Cavendish, William
Caxton, William
Cecil, Lord Hugh
Cecil, Lord Robert
celebrities
Chamberlain, Austen
Chamberlain, Neville
Chaplin, Henry
Charles I, King; his art collection; corruption and sale of titles; ‘martyrdom’; and War of the Three Kingdoms
Charles II, King (and Prince of Wales)
Charles Edward, Prince (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’, the Young Pretender)
Charlotte, Queen
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chetwynd, sixth Viscount
chivalry; American pseudo-chivalry; and Christianity; and duelling; and French Revolution; and funeral iconography; reinvention of; and tournaments
Church; and Glorious Revolution; and Peasants’ Revolt; and Reformation; Scottish
Church estates
Church of England; Anglican intolerance; and Catholic emancipation; Laudian innovations; liturgy; and Restoration; and War of the Three Kingdoms
Church of Ireland
churches
Churchill, Lord John
Churchill, Lord Randolph
Churchill, Winston
City of London
civil list
civil service
Claim of Right
Clanwilliam, Admiral the Earl
Clarence, George, Duke of
Clarence, Thomas, Duke of
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, first Earl of
Clarendon, Henry Hyde, second Earl of
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clergy
Cleveland, Charles Fitzroy, first Duke of
Clifford, Lord Thomas
Clifford, Sir Robert
Clifton, Gervase
Clotworthy, Sir John, see Massereene, Sir John Clotworthy, Viscount
Clyst St Mary
coats of arms
Cochrane, Lord Thomas
Cochrane, Rear Admiral Sir Arthur
coffee houses
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
College of Arms
Colonial Gentry
commissions of array
Common Sense (Paine)
Commonwealth
Communism and Communists
Compton Wynyates
concerts
Coningsby (Disraeli)
Connoisseurs, The (Rowlandson)
connoisseurship
Conservative Club
Constable, John
Constitution Hill
Continental Congress
Convention Parliament
Conyngham, George, third Marquess of
Conyngham, Victor, fifth Marquess of
Cooper, Duff
Cooper, Thomas, Bishop of Lincoln
Corn Laws
Cornwall
Cornwall, Edmund Crouchback, Earl of
Cornwall, Richard, Earl of
Cornwallis, General Lord
corresponding societies
Corrupt Practices Act
Country Party
Countryside Alliance
court corruption
Court of Star Chamber
Court of Wards
‘court tone’
courtesans
Coventry, Earl of
Coventry Parliament
Cowes week
Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury
Crawford, twenty-sixth Earl of
Crécy, Battle of
Creevey, Thomas
cricket
Crimean War
crofting laws
Cromwell, Oliver
Cromwell, Ralph, Lord
Cromwell, Richard
Cromwell, Thomas
Cruikshank, George
crusades
Culloden, Battle of
Cumberland, Henry Clifford, Earl of
Cumberland, George Clifford, third Earl of
Curzon, Lord
Cyril, Grand Duchess, of Russia
Dacre, Francis, Lord
Dalzell, Colonel Robert
Danby, Earl of
dancing
Dangerfield, George
Darcy, Thomas, Lord
Dashwood, Sir Francis
de Berners, Dame Juliana
de Broke, Lord Willoughby
de Burghersh, Sir Batholomew
de Crewe, Thomas
de Kérouaille, Louise
de Montfort, Simon, see Leicester, Simon de Montfort, Earl of
de Tocqueville, Alexis
de Waldegrave, Sir Richard
death duties Death of General Wolfe, The (West)
debutantes
decadence
Declarations of Indulgence
Declaratory Act
Decline and Fall (Waugh)
dedications
deference
delinquency charges
Delves Broughton, Sir Jock
democracy, American; local
Denbigh, Basil Feilding, second Earl of
depopulation
Derby, Thomas Stanley, first Earl of
Derby, Edward Stanley, third Earl of
Derby, William Stanley, ninth Earl of
Derby, Edward Stanley, fourteenth Earl of
Derby, Stanley earls of
Despenser, Hugh, Lord
Devonshire, Victor Cavendish, ninth Duke of
Devonshire, William Cavendish, second Earl of
Devonshire, William Cavendish, third Earl of
Devonshire, William Cavendish, fourth Earl of
Diana, Princess of Wales
Diggers
Dilettanti Society
diplomacy
Discourses Concerning Government (Sydney)
Disraeli, Benjamin
dissenters; see also Nonconformists
divorces
dogs
dominions
Donegal, Marchioness of
Dorset, Thomas Beaufort, first Earl of
Dorset, Edward Sackville, fourth Earl of
Dorset, Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of
Dorset, Henry Grey, third Marquess of
Douglas, James, second Earl of
Douglas, Archibald, third Earl of
Douglas-Home, Sir Alec
dress
Drummond, James (self-styled Duke of Perth)
Drummond family
Dublin
duels and duelling
‘duketti’
Dundas, Henry
Dundonald, tenth Earl of
earls
East India Company
eccentricity
Economist
Edgehill, Battle of
Edinburgh; anti-Catholic riots
Edinburgh Review
education
Edward I, King
Edward II, King
Edward III, King
Edward IV, King (and Earl of March)
Edward V, King
Edward VI, King
Edward VII, King (and Prince of Wales)
Edward VIII, King (and Prince of Wales)
Edward, Prince of Wales
Eglinton, Alexander Montgomerie, tenth Earl of
Eglinton, Archibald Montgomerie, thirteenth Earl of
Egmont, John Perceval, first Earl of
Egremont, third Earl of
elections
electoral franchise
Elgin, Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of
Elgin, Victor Bruce, ninth Earl of
Elizabeth I, Queen
Elizabeth II, Queen
Elizabeth Woodville, Queen
Ellenborough, Edward Law, first Baron
Ellenborough, Edward Law, second Baron
Elphinstone, Montstuart
Elyot, Sir Thomas
enclosures
encumbrances
England: and anti-Catholic sentiment; borders; under Commonwealth; and dual monarchy; Elizabethan golden age; and garden metaphor; and religion
Erroll, Francis Hay, ninth Earl of
Erroll, Josslyn Hay, twenty-second Earl of
Essex, Walter Devereux, first Earl of
Essex, Robert Devereux, second Earl of
Essex, Robert Devereux, third Earl of
‘estates’
Eton College
Europe: ancien régime; and French Revolution; and French wars; and Grand Tours; and Protestant cause; religious wars; student agitation in; twentieth-century
Evangelicalism
Evelyn, John
Exclusion Bill
Exeter, Henry Holland, Duke of
Exeter, William Cecil, second Earl of
Exeter, Lord Burghley, sixth Marquess of Faerie Queene (Spenser)
Falkland, Lucius Cary, second Viscount
Falmouth, Hugh Boscawen, second Viscount
Falmouth, Evelyn Boscawen, sixth Viscount
Fascism
fashion
fencing
Fenian movement
feuds
Field of the Cloth of Gold
Fielding, Henry
Fifth Monarchy movement
Filmer, Sir Robert
Findlater, James, seventh Earl of
First Book of Ayres (Attey)
First World War
Fisher, Kitty
Fitzwilliam, William, fourth Earl
Fitzwilliam, Charles, fifth Earl
flogging
Florio, John
Foot, Sir Dingle
Football Association
foreign languages
Foreign Office
Forty Years On (Bennett)
Four Feathers, The (Mason)
Fox, Charles James
France; aesthetic fashions; Bourbon restoration; English wars; and Grand Tours; and hunting; and Jacobitism; laws and liberties; religious wars
free trade
Freedom of Information Act
Freeman, the Earl of Clarendon’s gamekeeper (Stubbs)
French (language)
French National Assembly
French Revolution
French wars
funeral iconography
Gage, General Sir Thomas
Galloway, James Stewart, seventh Earl of
Game Laws
Gaveston, Piers
Gay, John
George I, King
George II, King
George III, King; and Canadian legislature; and Catholic emancipation; and French wars; and loss of American colonies
George IV, King (and Prince Regent)
George V, King
George VI, King
Germany; Nazi Germany
Gillis, Anna
Gladstone, William
Glasgow, James Carr-Boyle, fifth Earl of
Glasgow, David Boyle, ninth Earl of
Glen Urquhart, laird of
Glenarvon (Lamb)
Glorious First of June
Glorious Revolution
‘Glorious Twelfth’
Gloucester, Eleanor, Duchess of
Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of
Gloucester, Richard, Duke of, see Richard III, King
Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of
Go-Between, The (Hartley)
Godkin, Captain Robert
Goodwood
Gothic revival
Gower, John
Grafton, Henry Fitzroy, first Duke of
Grafton, Henry Fitzroy, fifth Duke of
Graham, Sir Bellingham
Graham, Sir James
Granby, John Manners, Marquess of
Great Exhibition
Grevel, William
Greville, Charles
Grey, Earl
Grey, Lady Jane
Grey, Lord Arthur
Grey, Lord Richard
Grosvenor, Lord Robert
Ground Game Bill
Gunpowder Plot
Guy of Warwick
Gwynn, Nell
Habeas Corpus Act
Haig, Field Marshal Lord
Halifax, George Savile, first Earl of
Halifax, Edward Wood, first Earl of
Halifax, second Viscount
Hamilton, James, third Marquess and first Duke of
Hamilton, William, Duke of
Hamilton, James, sixth Duke of
Hamilton, Alexander, tenth Duke of
Hamilton, James
Hamilton, Willie
Hampshire
Handel, George Frideric
Happy Valley
Harcourt, Sir William
Hardwick Hall
Hardy, Captain Thomas
Hardy, Thomas (novelist)
Harrington, William Stanhope, second Earl of
Harrington, Charles Stanhope, eighth Earl of
Harrow School
Haselrig, Sir Arthur
Hastings, William, Lord
Hastings, Francis, first Marquess of (Colonel Lord Rawdon Hastings)
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