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Biographies
Aitken, William Maxwell
Amiss, Kingsley
Archer, Jeffrey
Auden, Wystan Hugh
Austen, Jane
Ayer, Alfred Jules
Baden-Powell, Robert
Balfour, Arthur James
Barrett Browning, Elizabeth
Benn, Anthony Wedgewood
Bentham, Jeremy
Berenson, Peter
Berkeley, George
Bevan, Nye
Blair, Eric Arthur
Blake, William
Booth, Charles
Booth, William
Bradlaugh, Charles
Bragg, William Henry
Bronte, Anne
Bronte, Charlotte
Bronte, Emily
Brooke, Rupert
Brooks, Charles William Shirley
Brooks
Brown, Gordon
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert
Bullock, Alan
Bulwer-Lytton
Burgess, Anthony
Burke, Edmund
Burke, John
Carlyle, Thomas
Carroll, Lewis
Carte, Thomas
Chamberlain, Austen
Childers, Erskine
Christie, Agatha
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer
Clarke, Lindsay
Cobbett, William
Conrad, Joseph
Cooper, Alfred Duff
Creasey, Edward Shepherd
Crosland, Charles Anthony Raven
Crossman, Richard
Dalton, Edward Hugh John Neale
Darwin, Charles Robert
Darwin, Erasmus
Defoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles
Disraeli, Benjamin
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Durrrell, Lawrence George
Eddington, Arthur Stanley
Eden, Robert Anthony
Forester, Cecil Scott
Forster, Edward Morgan
Forsyth, Frederick
Fowler, Henry Watson
Gladstone, William Ewart
Glyn, Elinor
Golding, William
Grahame, Kenneth
Graves, Robert
Greene, Graham
Greenwood, Walter
Haldane, Robert Anthony
Hardy, Thomas
Hawking, Stephen
Hayek, Friedrich von
Healey, Denis
Henderson, Nevile Meyrick
Hoadly, Benjamin
Hogarth, William
Hogben, Lancelot
Hoggart, Richard
Holcroft, Thomas
Holtby, Winifred
Holt, John
Hughes, Ted
Hume, David
Hutton, James
Huxley, Aldous Leonard
Huxley, Thomas Henry
James, Henry
Johnson, Samuel
Keynes, John Maynard
Kipling, Rudyard
La Mare, Walter John de
Lennon, John Winston
Lessing, Doris
Lloyd George, David
Lyell, Charles
MacAulay, Catherine
MacDonald, James Ramsey
MacInnes, Colin
MacKenzie, Compton
MacMillan, Maurice Harold
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Mill, James
Mill, John Stewart
Mitford, Nancy
Montgomery, Bernard Law
Mosley, Nicholas
Multhus, Thomas
Oldham, Andrew Loog
Orwell, George
Owen, Wilfred
Paine, Thomas
Payn, James
Pope, Alexander
Priestley, Joseph
Quincey, Thomas de
Rossetti, Chistina
Rushdie, Salman
Russell
Ryle, Gilbert
Scott, Walter
Shelley, Mary
Shelley, Peter Bysshe
Simon
Smith, Adam
Smith, John
Smith, Robert
Spark, Muriel
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Tennyson, Alfred
Tennyson
Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
Thomas, Lowell
Trevelyan, George MacAulay
Trollope, Anthony
Vansittart
Wakley, Thomas
Walpole, Horace
Warton, Thomas
Waugh, Alexander Raban
Waugh, Edwin
Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St John
Webb
Wells, Herbert George
Wilberforce, William
Wilde, Oscar
Williams, Marcia
Wilson, Angus
Wilson, James Harold
Wisdom, John
Wolsencraft, Mary
Woolf, Virginia
Wordsworth, William
Places

Publication
History of Great Britain

              

1704
Hoadly, Benjamin
Publication of, "Letter to a Clergyman Concerning the Votes of the Bishops "
1710
Berkeley, George
Publication of, "Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge"
1714
Pope, Alexander
Publication of, "The Rape of the Lock"
1715
Pope, Alexander
Publication of, "The Temple of Fame"
1719
Defoe, Daniel
Publication of, "Robinson Crusoe"
1719
Pope, Alexander
Publication of, "Iliad"
1732
Hogarth, William
Publication of, "Harlot's Progress"
1735
Hoadly, Benjamin
ejects the sacred mystery of the consecration of the last supper
Publication of, "Account of the Nature & End of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper"
1735
Hogarth, William
Publication of, "A Rakes' Progress"
1740
Hume, David
Publication of, "A Treatise of Human Nature"
Publication of, "Political Discourses"
1749
Smith, Robert
Publication of, "Harmonics"
1753
Johnson, Samuel
15th April Publication of, "English Dictionary"
1755
Carte, Thomas
Publication of, "General History of England"
1758
Hume, David
Publication of, "Concerning Human Understanding"
1768
Walpole, Horace
Publication of, "Historic Doubts On Richard III"
Questions the guilty accounts of Richard III Henry VII, Henry VIII & Shakespeare
1770
Burke, Edmund
Publication of, "Thoughts On the Present Discontents"
1774
Priestley, Joseph
Publication of, "Essay on the First Principles of Government",
1776
Bentham, Jeremy
Publication of, "A Fragment on Government"
1776
Paine, Thomas
Publication of, "Common Sense"
19th Dec Publication of, "American Crisis ", essay
1776
Smith, Adam
Publication of, "The Wealth of Nations", criticizes mercantilism
1781
Holcroft, Thomas
Publication of, "Duplicity"
1782
Priestley, Joseph
Publication of, "A history of the Corruption of Chris tianity"
1783
MacAulay, Catherine
Publication of, "The history of England From King James ", 8 volumes 1763-83
1784
Holcroft, Thomas
Publication of, "Follies of a Day"
1785
Hutton, James
Publication of, "Theory of the Earth"
1785
Warton, Thomas
Appointed Poet Laureate
1787
Wolsencraft, Mary
Publication of, "Thoughts On the Education of Daughters"
1789
Bentham, Jeremy
Publication of, "Introduction to the Principles of Morals & Legislation"
1790
Burke, Edmund
Condemns the French revolution & upholds the ideas of the English 1688 revolution
Publication of, "Reflections On the French Revolution"
1791
Paine, Thomas
Publication of, "The Rights of Man", 1st part
1792
Holcroft, Thomas
Publication of, "The Road to Ruin"
1792
Paine, Thomas
Publication of, "The Rights of Man", 2nd part
1792
Wolsencraft, Mary
Dismisses Rousseau's notion women are inferior to men, argues for equal opportunities
Publication of, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"
1794
Blake, William
Publication of, "Book of Urizen"
Publication of, "Europe: A Prophecy"
1795
Blake, William
Publication of, "Book of Ahania"
Publication of, "Book of Los"
Publication of, "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell"
1795
Burke, Edmund
Publication of, "Age of Reason"
Rejects the biblical account of creation & the virgin birth
1796
Darwin, Erasmus
Publication of, "Zoomania", anticipates the evolutionary work of Jean Lamarck
1796
Paine, Thomas
Publication of, "Age of Reason"
1797
Blake, William
Publication of, "Night Thoughts"
1798
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Publication of, "The Principle of Population"
1798
Multhus, Thomas
Publication of, "The Essays on the Principles of Population"
1798
Wordsworth, William
Publication of, "Lyrical Ballads"
1802
Bentham, Jeremy
Advocates utilitarianism, "the greatest good for the greatest number"
Publication of, "Introduction To The Principles of Morals & Legislation"
1805
Wordsworth, William
Publication of, "The Prelude"
1808
Blake, William
Publication of, "Milton"
1811
Austen, Jane
Publication of, "Sense & Sensibility"
1813
Austen, Jane
Publication of, "Pride & Prejudice"
1814
Austen, Jane
Publication of, "Mansfield Park"
1816
Austen, Jane
Publication of, "Emma"
1816
Shelley, Peter Bysshe
Publication of, "Alastor"
1817
Scott, Walter
Publication of, "Rob Roy"
1818
Austen, Jane
Publication of, "Northanger Abbey"
Publication of, "Persuasion"
1818
Shelley, Mary
Publication of, "Frankenstein"
1819
Scott, Walter
Publication of, "Ivanhoe"
1819
Shelley, Peter Bysshe
Publication of, "Prometheus Unbound"
1820
Blake, William
Publication of, "Jerusalem"
1820
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Publication of, "Principles of Political Economy"
Publication of, "The Measure of Value Stated and Illustrated, With an Application of it to the alterations in the value of English currency"
1821
Mill, James
Publication of, "Elements of Political Economy"
1821
Quincey, Thomas de
Publication of, "Confessions of an English Opium Eater"
1822
Wakley, Thomas
5th Oct 1st publication of The Lancet
1823
Wilberforce, William
Wilberforce publishes his "Appeal to the Religion, Justice and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire in Behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies"
1824
Scott, Walter
Publication of, "Peveril of the Peak"
Publication of, "Quentin Durward"
Publication of, "Red Gauntlet"
Publication of, "St Ronan's Wall"
1825
Burke, John
Publication of, "Burke's Peerage"
1825
Scott, Walter
Publication of, "Woodstock"
1826
Disraeli, Benjamin
Publication of, "Vivian Grey"
1828
Bulwer-Lytton
Publication of, "Pelham"
1829
Mill, James
Publication of, "Phenomena of the Human Mind"
1829
Russell
Publication of, "Memoirs of Affairs of Europe"
1830
Cobbett, William
Publication of a collection of essays
Publication of, "Rural Rides"
1830
Lyell, Charles
Publication of, "Principles of Geology"
1830
Tennyson, Alfred
Publication of, "Poems"
1832
Bentham, Jeremy
Publication of, "Westminster Review"
1834
Bulwer-Lytton
Publication of, "The Last Days of Pompeii"
1835
Browning, Robert
Publication of, "Paracelsus"
1835
Bulwer-Lytton
Publication of, "Rienzi"
1835
Disraeli, Benjamin
Publication of, "Vindication of the Constitution"
1836
Darwin, Charles Robert
Publication of, "Notebooks on the Trans mutation of Species"
1837
Carlyle, Thomas
Publication of, "History of the French Revolution"
1838
Dickens, Charles
Publication of, "Nicholas Nickelby", 1st published in serial form
Publication of, "Oliver Twist"
1838
Gladstone, William Ewart
Publication of, "The State In It's Relations To The Church"
1840
Browning, Robert
Publication of, "Sordello"
1841
Browning, Robert
Publication of, "Pippa Passes"
1843
Browning, Robert
Publication of, "Return of the Druses"
1843
Dickens, Charles
19th Dec Publication of, "A Chris tmas Carol"
1843
Mill, John Stewart
Publication of, "System of Logic"
1843
Wordsworth, William
6th April Appointed Poet Laureate
1844
Disraeli, Benjamin
Publication of, "Coningsby"