Side Lights on English History: Extracts from Letters, Papers, and Diaries of the Past Three CenturiesExtracts from letters, papers, and diaries of the three centuries up to the year 1900, with the aim of giving color and life to history. The personalities become real and definite. By such writings we are initiated as by no other possible means into the spirit of the time. Witness the execution of the Queen of Scots through the eyes of the person who was appointed to tell Lord Burleigh all about it; follow the parliaments of Charles I and of Cromwell at the hand of men who served in them. Often the chief actors are our chief informants. These are voices that speak to us directly; the rest is merely commentary. |
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Contents
THE EXECUTION OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS 918 | 9 |
THE SPANISH ARMADA 1825 | 18 |
THE END OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH 2633 | 26 |
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT 4347 | 43 |
THE SPANISH MARRIAGE PROJECT 556o | 55 |
CHARLES I AND HENRIETTA MARIA OF FRANCE 6166 | 60 |
PARLIAMENTARY GRIEVANCES AGAINST CHARLES I 6784 | 67 |
CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS OF OLIVER CROMWELL 92103 | 92 |
THE COMING OF WILLIAM AND MARY 181192 | 181 |
THE STUARTS IN EXILE 192205 | 190 |
CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS OF WILLIAM AND MARY 205214 | 205 |
EDITORIAL THE SPANISH SUCCESSION WAR 214217 | 208 |
QUEEN ANNE AND THE MAKLBOROUGHS 217227 | 208 |
THE HANOVERIAN SUCCESSION 228237 | 228 |
GEORGE I AND THE PRINCESS OF AHI DEN 237244 | 237 |
KING GEORGE II AND QUEEN CAROLINE 244255 | 242 |
SPECIMENS OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS | 104 |
THE RETURN AND CORONATION OF CHARLES II 115124 | 115 |
THE PLAGUE OF LONDON 124131 | 124 |
THE FIRE OF LONDON 131142 | 131 |
THE COURT OF CHARLES II 142157 | 142 |
REBELLION OF ARGYLE AND MONMOUTH 158170 | 158 |
THE ARBITRARY RULE OF JAMES II 170180 | 170 |
EDITORIAL THE SEVEN YEARS WAR 253255 | 249 |
WILLIAM PITT AND THE AMERICAN WAK | 266 |
GEORGE III AND HIS HEIR APPARENT 272283 | 270 |
THE DEATH OF NELSON 284290 | 284 |
THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO 291297 | |
AN AMERICAN MINISTER AT THE COURT | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Side Lights on English History: Extracts from Letters, Papers, and Diaries of the Past Three Centuries |
| Editor | Ernest F. Henderson |
| Compiled by | Ernest F. Henderson |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | The Minerva Group, Inc., 2004 |
| ISBN | 1410216268, 9781410216267 |
| Length | 464 pages |
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