History of Britain – TERMS AND PROPER NAMES

Dr Tomasz Skirecki

1 BA, IFA, fil. rosyjsko-angielska, UAM

2011-2012

Cheddar Man
Newgrange
Stonehenge
Scara Brae
Beaker Folk
Picts
druids

Boudicca
Hadrian’s Wall
ogham

earl
Witenagemot
Shire (sheriff)
Heptarchy
Bretwalda
Gildas
Venerable Bede
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Hengest and Horsa
Offa’a Dyke
futhorc
Sutton Hoo
Ruthwell Cross
St. Patrick
St. David
St. Augustine of Canterbury
Lindisfarne
Iona
Winchester
fyrd
burghs
Lady Godiva
Hereward the Wake

Bayeux Tapestry
Tower of London
Windsor Castle
Welsh Marches
The Chancery and the Exchequer
The Angevin Empire
Thomas Becket
Strongbow
The Pale
Robin Hood
Simon de Montfort
Provisions of Oxford

History of Britain – TERMS AND PROPER NAMES

Dr Tomasz Skirecki

1 BA, IFA, fil. rosyjsko-angielska, UAM

2011-2012

Auld Alliance
Stone of Scone
William Wallace
Declaration of Arbroath
Roger Bacon
William Ockham
Order of the Garter
John Wycliffe and the Lollards
yeomen
enclosures
William Caxton

The Dissolution of the Monasteries
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cromwell
Thomas More
Book of Common Prayer
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
Thirty-Nine Articles
Richard Hakluyt
Francis Drake
Walter Raleigh

Petition of Right
Cavaliers and Roundheads
Diggers and Levellers
Olivier Cromwell
New Model Army
Whigs and Tories
Christopher Wren
John Locke
Francis Bacon
Thomas Hobbes
Isaac Newton
Royal Society
Jacobites
John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough

Bonnie Prince Charlie
Highland clearances
David Hume
Adam Smith
Jeremy Bentham
East India Company
Robert Clive
James Cook
Horatio Nelson
Duke of Wellington

History of Britain – TERMS AND PROPER NAMES

Dr Tomasz Skirecki

1 BA, IFA, fil. rosyjsko-angielska, UAM

2011-2012

the Luddites
James Watt
George Stephenson
corn laws
Edmund Burke
John Stuart Mill
William Wilberforce
Durham Report

Prince Albert
Great Exhibition
Florence Nightingale
The Raj
Scramble for Africa
Cecil Rhodes
Herbert Kitchener
Isamgard Kingdom Brunel
Charles Darwin
Fabian Society
James Keir Hardie
Suffragists

Entente Cordiale
Douglas Haig
IRA
Sinn Fein
appeasement
Harold Alexander
Bernard Montgomery

Beveridge Report
SS Empire Windrush
Oswald Mosley
Enoch Powell
John Maynard Keynes
Festival of Britain
Harold MacMillan’s “Winds of Change”
CND
The Chunnel