Documents in British History 1688 To the Present

The Bill of Rights (1689) John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (1690) The Riot Act (1715), The Maintenance of Law and Order Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal (1729), A Radical Solution to the Problems of Ireland The Hat Act (1732) and the Iron Act (1750), Mercantilistic Regulation of Trade John Wesley, Journal, The Methodist Revival, (1738) Samuel Sandys and Sir Robert Walpole, Debate in Commons (1741), The Office of Prime Minister William Hogarth, Prints (1725-1763) The Artist as Social Critic, Horace Walpole, Letters, The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion Earl of Chesterfield, Letters (1748) The Education of a Gentleman Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language (1755) Wilkes V. Wood (1763) and Leach V. Money (1765), John Wilkes and General Warrants William Pitt, Speech in Commons (1766), American Taxation Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770) The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America (1776) Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776), An Attack on Mercantilism Jeremy Bentham, A Fragment on Government (1776), and An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1780) James Ogden, A Description of Manchester (1783), The Industrial Revolution Archeology and the Industrial Revolution Thomas Clarkson, Sermon (1787), The African Slave Trade Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) Robert Burns (1759-1796), Poems and Songs Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices (1802) The Times, The Battle of Trafalgar (1805) A Declaration by the Framework Knitters (1812), The Luddites The Roman Catholic Emancipation Act (1829) Lord John Russell, Speech in Commons (1831), The Great Reform Bill Ebenezer Elliott, Corn Law Rhymes (1831), The Free Trade Movement Sadler Committee, Testimony (1832), Child Labor in England Thomas Babington Macaulay, Minute on Indian Education (1835) The National Petition (1839) The Chartist Program Lord Durham, Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839), Self-Government in the Colonies Lord Palmerston, Speech in Commons (1850), The Don Pacifico Affair The Victoria and Albert Museum (1852) William Howard Russell, Dispatches to The Times (1854), The Charge of the Light Brigade Anthony Trollope, The Three Clerks (1858) The Unreformed Civil Service Samuel Smiles, Self Help(1859) Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859) The Theory of Evolution John Henry Cardinal Newman, Aplolgia Provita Sua (1864), The Oxford Movement Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (1867), England on the Eve of Democracy Queen Victoria, Letters to Gladstone (1870-1886), The Nineteenth-Century Monarchy Punch (1868-1879), The Modern Political Cartoon Benjamin Disraeli, Crystal Palace Speech (1872), The New Imperialism Gilbert and Sullivan, H.M.S Pinafore (1878) and Iolanthe (1882) William Ewart Galdstone, Speech in Commons (1886), Irish Home Rule Sidney Webb, "The Historic Basis of Socialism," Fabian Essays (1889) Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People of London (1889) Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People of London (1889) Rudyard Kipling, "Recessional" (1897) Eyre Crowe, Memorandum (1907), England and Germany Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys (1908) David Lloyd George, Campaign Speech (1910), Attack on the House of Lords Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story (1914), The Suffragette Movement Wilfred Owen, Poems (1917-1918), The Western Front Marie Carmichael Stopes, Married Love (1918) The Balfour Report (1926) From Empire to Commonwealth The British Gazette (1926), The General Strike Lord Birkenhead, Speech in Lords (1928), Equal Voting Rights for Women John Maynard Keynes, "Can Lloyd George Do It?" (1929) Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life (1930), The English Public School THE TIMES (1933), The Body-line Bowling Controversy Edward VIII, Radio Speech (1936), The Abdication Crisis George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), The Great Depression Neville Chamberlain, Speech in Commons (1938), The Munich Crisis Winston Churchill, Speeches in Commons (1940), The Battle of Britain The Atlantic Charter (1941), Churchill and the United States The Beveridge Report (1942), Program for the Welfare State Letters to The Times (1946), The National Health Service Sir Anthony Eden, Speech on BBC (1956), The Suez Crisis Harold Macmillan, Speech to the Parliament of the Union of South Africa (1960), "The Wind of Change" Edward Heath, Speech in Commons (1971), From Commonwealth to Common Market Bernadette Devlin, Interview in Playboy (1972), Northern Ireland Margaret Thatcher, Speech to the Conservative Party Conference at Breighton (1980) The British Press, The Falkland Islands War (1982) Sir Garnet Wolseley, "Memo" (1981), and John Moore, Speech in Commons (1986), The Channel TunnelBlakeley, Brian L. is the author of 'Documents in British History 1688 To the Present', published 1993 under ISBN 9780070057029 and ISBN 0070057028.