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  • 1. British History & Heritage 1485-nowhttp://www.enjoyengland.com/Things-to-do/Historic-England/

2. Tudor England (1485 to 1603) The Tudors merchant class & colonialism http://britishempire.co.uk/timeline/16century.htm Henry VII 1485 1509 1497: John Calbot discovers North America Henry VIII 1509 1547 (large navy) 1513 : English defeat the Scots 1529-1540 English Reformation 1534: Henry VIII forms Church of England 1536: Act of Union joining England & Walesby and from and Hans Holbein, the Younger Around 1497-1543 20/10/132 3. Tudor England - 2 Crisis in the Tudor Dynasty 3 children from Henry VIII Reformation and Counter Reformation Edward VI 1547 1553 (9-15 years old died) (Lady Jane Grey 1553 1553 (17 years old - 9 days - executed) Mary I (Tudor) 1553 1558 Elizabeth I 1558 1603 / Elizabethan Times 1570: Sir Francis Drake discovers West Indies 1588: Spanish Armada 1600: East India CompanyStratford upon Avon William Shakespeares birthplace (1st play: 1591)20/10/133 4. Nicholas Hilliardhttps://www.artfinder.com/work/portrait-of-queen-elizabeth-i-nicholas-hilliard-1/in20/10/134 5. Early Stuarts James I of England, Scotland and Ireland (1603-1625) 1605 : Gunpowder Plot Guy Fawkes Puritans Charles I (1625-49) Petition of Right in 1628Coffee houses1629 : Charles dissolves Parliament - 11 years. 1634: Ship Money 1640 : Short Parliament Long Parliament, -> l 1660 20/10/135 6. the English Civil War English Civil War (1642-1646) Oliver Cromwell - New Model Army. 1644: Battle of Marston Moor The Parliamentary cause became increasingly entangled with extreme radical Protestantism 1645: Battle of Naseby 1646: Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold 1949: death of Charles20/10/136 7. Stuart England 2 1649-60: Commonwealth 1653-58: Protectorate under Cromwell - Radical protestantism 1658: Cromwell diesWhitehall Palace from the River Thames by Wenceslaus Hollar, c1650, showing the Banqueting House and, to its right, the Tudor great hall. http://www.hrp.org.uk/BanquetingHouse/By Robert Walker, 1649; National Gallery20/10/137 8. Stuart England 1660: the Restoration 1665: Great Plague 1666: Great Fire in London Wren / St. Pauls totally rebuilt after the fire Changes in Government. Under Charles II 1678 : Popish Plot 1679: Habeus Corpus Act 17th century20/10/138 9. English Commercial influence - 1625Britain = from 1707 - period of 1497 to 1707 = English Empire - although Wales was part of it 20/10/13 http://britishempire.co.uk/timeline/17century.htm9 10. 1713 Treaty of Utrechthttp://britishempire.co.uk/timeline/18century.htm 20/10/1310 11. Georgian England (1714-1837) - 1 Georgian England 1 (1714-1760) 1714-27 1727-60 1753 1755-63George I . . .20/10/1311 12. Georgian England - 2 Georgian England 2 (1760-1837) 1760-1820 1793-1815George III .Early industrial revolution & social unrest (luddite protest) 1815, 1828 Corn Laws 1829Catholic emancipation bill1830-37William IVhttp://britishempire.co.uk/timeline/18century.htm http://britishempire.co.uk/media/biography/madnessofkinggeorge.htm20/10/1312 13. Country houses & landscape Gardens revolution in art and architecture: age of the grand country house landscape gardens Castle Howard, Stowe (Lord Cobham). Lancelot Brown: "Capability" Brown Country house = a mansionHarewood house, YorkshireStourhead (Henry Hoare, 1741) (between Bristol & Bournemouth) 20/10/1313 14. XVIIIth c. portrait & caricature paintingIn 17431745 William Hogarth six pictures of Marriage -la-mode National Gallery, London Mr and Mrs Andrews, Thomas Gainsborough, about 1750 Leading portraitists: Thomas Gainsborough; Sir Joshua Reynolds, founder of the Royal Academy of Arts; George Romney Joseph Wright of Derby well known for his minute candlelight pictures, George Stubbs for his animal paintings.14http://nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/explore-the-paintings/3020/10/13 highlight-paintings 15. Victorian Times (Queen Victoria 1837-1901) But difficult start: The Chartist movement 1839The Anti Corn Law League The Crimean War (1854) The Chartist movement The Indian Mutiny (1857) LEGACY Expansion of British Empire 1876 Empress of India Victorian values 20/10/1315 16. The Great Exhibition, 1851 Victoria's consort, Prince Albert The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations Hyde Park showpiece: Crystal Palace (architect: Joseph Paxton) 1848 feet long and 408 wide, enclosing 772,784 square feet (19 acres) area six times that of St. Pauls structure : 4000 tons of iron, 900,000 feet of glass 202 miles of sash bars 17,000 exhibitors 6 million visitors20/10/1316 17. 20/10/1317 18. Late Victorian England A tale of Two Prime Ministers Gladstone and Disraeli The Irish Question Legal reform proceeded slowly Ballot Act of 1872 Victorian literature Urbanization & Industrial Revolution British pop 1801 16M -> 1901 40 M. urbanisationOver London by rails Gustave Dor 1870Seaside Resorts: Blackpool and Brighton The new aristocracy 20/10/1318 19. North England: WHC listedIronbridgeSaltaire20/10/1319 20. Arts & Architecture Gothic revival new Palace of Westminster, 18371867, Charles Barry http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/g/gothi c-revival Arts and Crafts movement http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articl es/t/the-arts-and-crafts-movement/ New Raphaelites http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/p aintings/glossary/pre-raphaelite http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tatebritain/exhibition/pre-raphaelitesvictorian-avant-garde 20/10/1320 21. Colonial past Areas of the world that were at one time part of the British Empire20/10/1321 22. British Empire 191520/10/1322