Description
Book SynopsisTold by two of our most celebrated historians, this is a spirited journey of discovery of our nation's history seen through the examination of 50 key documents.
Trade Review'A fascinating insight into pivotal events in Britain's past'
BBC History Magazine.
Table of ContentsIncluding:
Vindolanda Tablet • Domesday Book • Magna Carta • Treaty of Perpetual Peace • Elizabeth Tide Letter • Drake's letter to Elizabeth I on victory over the Spanish • Guy Fawkes confession • Death Warrant of Charles I • Wren's drawing for the dome of St Paul's • Map of Battle of Blenheim • Cook's chart of Botany Bay • Bligh's Report on the Mutiny on the Bounty • Battle Map of Trafalgar • Wellington's Waterloo Dispatch • Gladstone's slave compensation • Penny Black Stamp • Brunel's notebook • Ada Lovelace letter to Charles Babbage • Design for the Great Exhibition building • Charge of the Light Brigade Order • Rorke's Drift Dispatch • Design for the FA Cup • Scott's last diary entry • Telegram from the Titanic • Balfour's Declaration of Palestine • Haig's 'backs to the wall' order • First edition of the Radio Times • Instrument of Abdication of Edward VIII • Churchill's 'Finest Hour' speech • Guy Gibson's logbook • Ticket stub for Beatles first concert with Ringo • Falklands Islands Surrender • Queen's planned speech following a nuclear attack • Tim Berners-Lee's memo for World Wide Web • The Good Friday Agreement • Ballot paper for the Scottish Referendum.
