Wynn Jones, Michael, The cartoon history of Britain , 1973
- Title(s):
- The cartoon history of Britain / Michael Wynn Jones ; with a foreword by Michael Cummings.
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Published/Created:
- New York : Macmillan Company, 1973.
©1971 - Physical Description:
- 287 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryNC1470 .W9 1973 (LC) OversizeAccessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Note: Please contact the Reference Library to schedule an appointment [Email ycba.reference@yale.edu] - Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12900596
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 5).
- Subject Terms:
- English wit and humor, Pictorial.English wit and humor, Pictorial.Great Britain -- History -- Caricatures and cartoons.Great Britain.
- Form/Genre:
- Caricatures and cartoons.
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- Chapter I
- The South sea bubble
- Walpole's ministry 1721-42
- Wood's coinage 1722
- The excise bill 1733
- The Gin act 1753
- The war of Jenkins' ear 1739
- The Austrian succession
- The fall of Walpole 1742
- George II
- Chapter II
- The Jacobite rebellion 1745
- Pelham ministry
- The Peace of Aix-la-Chapele 1748
- Gin act 1751
- Jews act 1753
- The Newcastle ministry 1754
- Seven years war 1756-63
- Admiral Byng
- Newcastle-Pitt coalition 1757
- Lord Bute
- Chapter III
- The war of American independence
- The Gordon riots 1780
- The Whig coalition 1782
- Grattan's home rule 1782
- Shelburne-Pitt ministry 1782
- Peace of Versailles 1783
- Fox's India bill 1783
- Pitt v Fox
- The Prince of Wales and Mrs Fitzherbert
- Impeachment of Warren Hastings 1787
- The Regency crisis 1788
- French revolution 1789
- Tom Paine and the rights of man
- Chapter IV
- Split of the Whigs
- French victories
- Defeat of the Slave bill 1796
- Battle of the Nile 1798
- Irish revolt 1798
- Act of union 1801
- Fall of Pitt 1801
- Peace of Amiens 1802
- Napoleon as emperor
- Ministry of all the talents
- Death of Pitt and Fox 1806
- No popery election 1807
- Treaty of Tilsit 1807
- The Peninsular war
- Retreat from Moscow 1812
- The regency 1812
- War with America 1812
- Fall of Napoleon 1814
- Congress of Vienna 1814
- Battle of Waterloo 1815
- The Corn law 1815
- Chapter V
- Spa fields riot 1816
- Seditious meetings bill 1817
- Peterloo massacre 1819
- The six acts 1819
- The Caroline scandal 1820
- George IV
- Catholic emancipation 1828-29
- Wellington's ministry 1828-30
- Williami IV
- Industrial revolution
- First reform bill 1832
- Whig reforms
- Tolpuddle martyrs 1834
- Melbourne and Peel
- Accession of Queen Victoria 1837
- Anti-Corn law league
- Free trade v protection
- O'Connell and repeal of the union
- Repeal of the Corn laws 1846
- Fall of Peel 1846
- Famine in Ireland 1845-46
- Year of revolutions 1848
- Chapter VI
- The Catholic church 1850
- Napoleon and Palmerston
- Crimea war 1854-56
- Balaclava 1854
- Derby ministries
- Indian mutiny 1857
- The triumvirate 1859
- American Civil war 1861
- The Trent affiar 1861
- Fenian outrages
- Second reform bill 1867
- Gladstone and Disraeli
- Education act 1870 and other reforms
- Liberal disunity
- Suez canal share 1875
- Victoria empress of India 1877
- The Midlothian campaign 1879
- Phoenix park murders 1882
- Third reform bill 1884
- Gordon in the Sudan
- Home rule election 1886
- The diamond jubilee 1887
- Chapter VII
- Irish home rule
- Parnell and The Times 1888
- Rhodes in South Africa 1890
- Gladstone's last ministry
- Defeat of the Home Rule Bill 1893
- Lord Salisbury and Joseph Chamberlain
- The Jameson Raid 1895
- Fashoda 1897
- Boer war 1899
- Anglo-Japanese alliance 1902
- Imperial preference
- The liberal landslide 1906
- Growth of the labour party
- Lloyd George's budget 1909
- European rearmament
- Suffragette riots 1911
- Triple alliance of unions 1913
- The first World War 1914-18
- Chapter VIII
- Treaty of Versailles 1919
- The Irish problem
- League of nation 1920
- Occupation of the Ruhr 1921
- The Zinoviev letter 1924
- German inflation
- General strike 1926
- Complete women's suffrage 1929
- Wall street crash 1929
- Economic crises
- Jarrow crusade 1936
- Spanish civil war 1936
- Munich and appeasement 1938
- The Second World War 1939-45
- Yalta and Potsdam 1945
- Defeat of Churchill 1945
- Rationing
- Korean war 1950
- Festival of Britain 1951
- Fall of the labour government 1951
- Accession of Queen Elizabeth 1952
- The H bomb
- Apartheid
- The Suez crisis 1956
- Invasion of Hungary 1956
- Harold Macmillan.