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Eyewitness to history
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Harvard University Press
Publication Date
1988.
Language
English
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Topics covered: Plague in Athens
The Greeks march to the sea
The death of Socrates
Caesar invades Britain
Rome burns
The siege of Jerusalem
The eruption of Vesuvius
The deification of the Emperor Septimius Severus
Dinner with Attila the Hun
A Viking funeral
The Green Children
The murder of Thomas Becket
Richard I massacres prisoners after taking Acre
Kublai Khan's Park
Mishaps in childhood
The Battle of Crecy
The Black Death
Women ape men
The capture of Guines
False Mutes
The Peasants' Revolt
The Battle of Agincourt
Norwegian Fisherfolk
The New World
A Salamander
Spanish atrocities in the West Indies
The performing ass, Cairo
Human sacrifice among the Aztecs
The Incas' golden garden
The progess of the English Reformation
With the Spaniards in Paraguay
The execution of Archbishop Cranmer
Prisoners of the Inquisition
The Sack of Antwerp by a Spanish Army
The arrest of the Catholic Priest Edmund Campion and his associates
Some London criminals
Babylon in 1583
Natural childbirth in India
Shipwreck off Mozambique
A London merchant in Cairo
The execution of Mary Queen of Scots
The seasons in Russia
The last fight of the revenge
Trapper in the Arctic Ice
A Jesuit is tortured in the Tower
A private audience with Elizabeth I
English merchants in Java
The effects of Elizabethan Policy in Ireland
Newfoundland Mermaid
Whirling dervishes
The magnificence of the great mogul
The great mogul: his cruelty
The murder of the Duke of Buckingham
Landing in New England
Oliver Cromwell writes to his brother-in-law after the Battle of Marston Moor
Circumcision: Rome
Suttee
George Fox visits Lichfield
Religious observances in Dunkirk
The fire of London
The great frost
The English love of fighting
Conditions of life aboard the French galleys
The Battle of Schellenberg
Robinson Crusoe found
Bull-baiting: London
Turkish bath: Adrianople
Albatross shot.
Solar eclipse
Pantomimes and gladiators
The Princess of Wales is delivered of a daughter
Crossing the Alps
Scurvy
John Wesley preaches in hull
Kitten overboard
The Black Hole of Calcutta
The burial of George II
The King of Ethiopia expresses displeasure
Dr. Johnson's playfulness
Christmas Day at New College, Oxford
Garrick plays Hamlet
The Gordon Riots
Ranelagh
Midshipman Gardner (aged 12) in action against the French
The first manned flight in England
Louis XVI and the French royal family, prisoners at the Tuileries
Chateaubriand lands in the New World
Marie-Antoinette at the opera
A trip to Paris
The execution of Louis XVI
The Revolutionary Tribunal
Nelson loses an arm
The Battle of the Nile
Beggars, a leech gatherer, and daffodils: the Wordsworths at Grasmere
Nelson turns a blind eye
Childsplay in the Lake District
The morning of Trafalgar
Trafalgar: Nelson sends the signal "England expects that every man this day will do his duty"
The death of Lord Nelson
Seeing the Elgin marbles for the first time
After the Battle of Rolica
The British retreat to Corunna
Taken prisoner at Corunna
A mastectomy
Napoleon enter Moscow
Death of a climbing boy
Wounded at Nivelle
Execution by impalement: Latakia
Waterloo
Waterloo, 18 June 1815: dawn with the 7th Hussars
Waterloo: charge of the Scots Greys and 92nd Highlanders
Waterloo: The Royal Horse Artillery Repulse Enemy Cavalry
Waterloo: Napoleon's last throw
Charge of the Imperial Guard
Waterloo: the finale
Embalming a patriarch
Factory conditions / Elizabeth Bentley
Prison visiting
Peterloo
Cremation of the poet Shelley, near Leghorn
Exit George IV
The opening of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway
Cholera in Manchester
Birds in the Galapagos Archipelago
The coronation of Queen Victoria
London prostitutes
Death by guillotine: Rome
American slavery
The Irish Potato Famine
Flaubert and the dancing girls
Inside the Crystal Palace
The Farringdon Watercress Market
Louis Napoleon's troops subdue Paris
Victoria and Albert in the Highlands
The Japanese and introduced to Western technology
The Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade
The Indian Mutiny
Single combat in the Caucasus
Explosion on board Brunel's Great Eastern Steamship
The Times Correspondent helps Garibaldi liberate Palermo
Derby Day
The American Civil War
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
General Sherman's march
The murder of Abraham Lincoln
Americans abroad
The suppresion of the Paris Commune
Stanley find Livingstone
The Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria
An immigrant crosses America
Paul Gauguin
The Graeco-Turkish War
A seaside holiday, Norfolk Coast
The attack on the Atbara
The Battle of Omdurman
The Spanish-American War
The Battle of El Caney
Jumping a train
The Boer War
Queen Victoria's last journey
The first radio signal across the Atlantic
A roundabout in Montmartre
Bloody Sunday
The San Francisco Earthquake
The first Channel flight
Suffragette Lady Constance Lytton
Arrest of Dr. Crippen
The Siege of Sidney Street
South Polar Expedition
The Titanic
The lemon gardens under cover for winter
Colombo Curry
George Bernard Shaw at his mother's funeral
The murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo
The vulture
The German Army marches through Brussels
World War I
Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial Family shot in Ekaterinburg
Treaty of Versailles
Famine in Russia
Execution of Henri D. "Bluebeard" Landru
German inflation
British India
The Spanish Civil War
World War II
Pearl Harbor
Auschwitz
Dachau
Leningrad
Battle of Midway
Nazi extermination of the Jews
Atlingrad
D-Day
Birkenau Camp
Kamikaze attack
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
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