Emesa, Syria 191
England 97, 201
English Civil War see Civil War
English Dancing Master, The 147
English Reformation 214
Epirus 127
equinox, spring 76
Eucharist 199
evil spirits 23
Exeter Book 86
factories 256
Fairfax, Sir Thomas 71, 80, 82, 204
fairies 23
fairy stories 23, 113
farming 211-12
Farquhar, George Recruiting Officer, The 217
farthings 149
Fawkes, Guido (Guy) 173-5
feast of St Catherine 92
female fertility 209
Ferdinand II of Aragon 84
Fforde, Jasper 94
Fiennes, Celia 178
fire 90
fire leaping 92
fireworks 175
First Act of Supremacy 106
First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, The 111
First World War 256
Fisher, Kitty 123
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne 47
Flour of England 7, 34-6, 86, 135, 214
folk medicine 3
folk tales 28
For Want of a Nail 28, 36-8, 80, 236
Fort McHenry 264
Fotheringhay Castle 136
Fourth Bear, The 94
France 9
Francis II of France 112
Frederick, Duke of York 52, 54
French and Indian War 270
Frère Jacques 38-40, 121
Freya 137
Frog He Would A-Wooing Go, A 40-44
Fugitive Slave Act 267
Gaius Julius Hyginus 62
gallstone surgery 39
Gardiner, Bishop Steven 134-5
Gay, John Beggar’s Opera, The 217
geese 51
Genesis 199
Gentlemen’s Magazine, The 246
Geoffrey of Monmouth 49, 142
History of the Kings of Britain(Historia Regnum Britanniae) 49, 142
George Cross 122
George I 223
George II 33, 98, 208, 245
George III 47, 52, 193
George IV 47
George V 246
Georgie Porgie 44-8, 52, 208
Gillray, James 47
Glastonbury 109
Benedictine abbey 106-107
Glastonbury Tor 109
Glorious Revolution of 1688 33, 54-5, 56, 184
Gloucester 32
God Save the Queen 244-6, 255
Godiva, Lady 176-8
Gomme, Alice Dictionary of British Folklore 183
Good Friday 75, 237
Good King Arthur 48-50
Good King Wenceslas 247-8
‘goose club’ 25
Goosie, Goosie Gander 50-51
Gower, John 37
Grand Old Duke of York, The 33, 184, 47, 52-5
graveyards 135
Great Custom 10
Great Fire of London 118, 121, 122, 147
Great Fire of Southwark 122
Great Plague 180, 182
Greek gods 127
Greenaway, Kate 182
Mother Goose 183
Greene, Maurice 224
Grey, Lady Jane 134
Greyfriars Library 220
Greyhound(slave ship) 242, 244
Grimaldi, Joseph 221
Guild of Merchants 220
Guildford 9
Guildhall 220
guillotine-type devices 135
guinea pigs 206
Guinevere 49
gunpowder plot 173-4
Gwyn, Nell 43, 44
Gylfaginning 89
Hale, Sarah Josepha 129, 132
Halliwell-Phillips, James Orchard 199
Hampton Court Palace 104, 107, 145
Handel, George Frideric 223-5
Hardy, Thomas 237
‘Oxen, The’ 237
Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark 55-7
Harrogate 52
Harry, Prince 55
Harwich, HMS 242
Hector Protector 57-60, 68
Henri II 42
Henri III 39
Henry III 9
Henry IV 220
Henry V 58, 220
Henry VI 58, 59, 60, 68
Henry VII 84, 143
Henry VIII 11-12, 35, 42, 84, 104, 107, 139, 144-5, 146, 194-5, 212, 214, 216, 258
divorce from Catherine of Aragon 145
herbalism 3
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush 61-5, 265
Hey Diddle Diddle 58
Hickory, Dickory, Dock 58, 70-74
Higgeldy, Piggeldy, My Black Hen 74-5
Historia Regnum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) 49, 142
History of Richard Whittington 221
‘Hitler Has Only Got One Ball’ 82
Hoey, Gerry 250
Hokey Cokey, The 249-52
Holborn Viaduct 149
Holmes, Sherlock Holofernes 168
Holy Grail 49, 107
Holy Thorn 107
homosexuality 46
Hood, Robin 93, 236
Hoover, President Herbert 264
Horner, Thomas 107
hortus inclusus 136
Hot Cross Buns 75-6
hot cross buns 76
House of Commons 207
House of Correction 65
House of Lords 11
House That Jack Built, The 28, 77-80
Houses of Parliament 174, 209
Howard, Thomas 134
Hoxton 159
Huguenots 159
Humpty Dumpty 80-83, 168, 222, 227
Hundred Years’ War 11, 58
hymns 242
Hymns for Infant Minds 226
I Had a Little Nut Tree 83-5, 212
I Saw Three Ships 252-4
Iceni 121
In Marble Walls as White as Milk 7, 85-6
‘In Una Siepe Ombrosa’ 224
Industrial Revolution 256
internet 60
Inuit 126
Irving, Washington 199
Isabella I of Castile 84, 254
Isabella of Gloucester 93-4
Itinerary 110
Jack and Jill 86-9, 102, 125
Jack Sprat 93-4
Jack, Be Nimble 90-93
Jacobites 99
Jainists 19
James I 33, 45, 97, 173
homosexuality 46
James II 57, 184, 228-9
James VI of Scotland see James I
James, Roger 109
Japan 125
Jenkins, Robert 246
Jerusalem 254-6
Jesus 107, 129, 237, 253
Joan of Arc 58
John, king of England 93-4 ‘Johnny English’ 170
Johnson, Samuel Dictionary of the English Language, A 101
Joseph of Arimathea 107, 255
Judith (Old Testament) 168
Kennedy, Jimmy 250
‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ 250
Kenyon, Kate and Luke 185
Kéroualle, Louise de 43
Key, Francis Scott 264
Kilmersdon 88
King Arthur 48-9
King Lear 101
Kipling, Rudyard 10
Kitley House, Yealmpton 145
kittens 7, 44
Knightley, Keira 195
Knights Templar 39
knockdown comedy 164
Knox, John, 111, 112
First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, The 111
Ladybird, Ladybird 95
LaPrise, Larry 250
Latimer, Hugh 214
Lear, Edward Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets 153
Leasor, James 182
Plague and the Fire, The 182
Lednock 14
Leland, John Itinerary 110
Leo (const
ellation) 69
Leofric, Earl of Mercia 176
Leopold, Duke 93
Leslie, General Sir Alexander 202
lexicographers 154
Life and Strange and Surprising
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 156-7
Lincoln 9
Lion and the Unicorn, The 34, 97-9, 246, 261
Lisle, Sir George 80
Little Bo Peep 29, 100-103, 217
Little Boy Blue 103-106
Little Jack Horner 55, 106-110, 139, 194
Little Miss Muffet 110-12, 135
Little Polly Flinders 113-14
Little Tommy Tucker 114-15
Liverpool 15
Londinium 117
London, City of 220
London Bridge 117, 119
auction 119
London Bridge Is Falling Down 115-21
London’s Burning 39, 121-2, 218
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 205, 231
Song of Hiawatha, The 205
Lord Chancellor 11
Lotti, Antonio 224
Louis XVI of France 87
execution 87
Lovell, Francis 68
Lucas, Sir Charles 80
Lucy Locket 123-4, 270
Ludford Bridge, Battle of 59
Ludgate Hill 122
Lyra (constellation) 70
Macak, Charles 250
macaroni 270
MacDonald, Flora 261
Macedonia 127
Mackay, Charles 258
Mad Hatter 228
Magna Carta 94
Maijor, Richard 72
Malaysia 126
Malory, Thomas Morte d’Arthur, Le 49-50
Man Friday 157
man in the moon 89
Man in the Moon, The 89, 124
Man of Thessaly, The 126-7
Manchester 15
Ship Canal 15
Marcus Manlius Capitolinus 51
Margaret of Anjou 59, 60
Marian Persecutions 214
Marie Antoinette of France 87
execution 87
Marlborough, Duke of 55
Marley, Alice 32
marriage 139
Martello Tower 102
Martin, Sarah Catherine 145, 146
Martin Lane 148-9
Mary Had a Little Lamb 29, 128-33, 217
Mary I of Scotland 111
Mary of Guise 42
Mary Queen of Scots 36, 42, 111, 134, 135-6
execution 36, 136
Mary Tudor 12, 35, 111, 134-5, 212, 213, 214, 215
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary 133-6, 145, 214
Mary, mother of Jesus 95, 134, 136
Mason, Dr Lowell 129
Mass 199
Massachusetts 186
Mayflower 186
McCulloch, Robert P. 119
medieval times 114
Mells Manor House 108
Members of Parliament 21
Merchant of Venice, The 30
Mercia 176
mice 211
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A 62, 89
Miller of Dee, The 25 7-9
Miller, William 229, 230
Milton, John 255
Paradise Lost 255
Milton: A Poem 255
minstrels 140, 251
Molay, Jacques de 39
monasteries 139
Monday’s Child 137-8
Mont Cassell 54
Montague, Edward, 3rd Earl of Sandwich 185
Montague, Richard 185
moon 23, 70, 125, 137, 171
man in the 89
Morris dancing 179
Morte d’Arthur, Le 49-50
‘Mother Goose’ 113
Mother Goose 182
Mother Goose’s Melody 8, 85
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 227
Muffet, Dr Thomas 112
mulberry trees 64
Murray, Lord George 98
music 140
music hall 250
Muslims 19
Muzio Scevola 223
Napoleon 54
Napoleonic Wars 53
National Covenant of 1638 203
Neale, John Mason 248
Needles and Pins 139-40
Nelson, Admiral 54, 172, 231
Neville, Anne 68
Neville, Richard 67
New Model Army 71
New York Times 129
Book Review 129
Newburn, Battle of 202
Newbery, John 8, 185
Mother Goose’s Melody 85
Newcastle 203
Newgate Gaol 150, 220
Newmarket 43
Newton, John 242-4
nonsense poems 65
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets 153
North Star 268
Northampton 9
Battle of 60
Northumbria 176
Norwich 124
nuns 136
Nurse Truelove’s New Year’s Gift, or The Book of Books for Children 79
‘O du lieber Augustin’ 155
Oedipus 86
Olaf of Norway 120
Old Bailey 149-50
great bell 150
Old English poetry 86
Old King Cole 140-43, 227
Old Mother Hubbard 35, 104, 143-6
Old Norse literature 85-6, 89, 120
‘Old Rowley’ 43
Old Testament 168, 199, 266, 268
imagery 191
Olney Church 244
Olympus, Mount 127
One-Eyed Thompson 81, 82
Onward Christian Soldiers’ 125
opera, Italian 223
Oranges and Lemons 146-52, 219
Original Poems for Infant Minds 226
orphans 114
Ottar the Black 120
Owl and the Pussycat, The 152-4
‘Oxen, The’ 237
Oxford, Siege of 204
‘Oxford Martyrs’ 214
Oxford University 72
paganism 76
Palmer, Barbara, Countess of Castlemaine 43, 44
Pammelia, Musickes Miscellanie 30
pantomime 221
Paradise Lost 255
Parliament 105, 209
Parliamentarians 4
Parr, Katherine 139
Parry, C. Hubert H. 256
pawnbrokers 161
peep shows 186-7
‘peeping Tom’ 177
pepper 211
Pepys, Samuel 6, 162-3, 182-, 221
Percy, Henry 68
Perrault, Charles 113
Perth 14
Philip II of Spain 35, 214
Pickwick Papers, The 148
pirates 90, 195-8
plague 14
Plague and the Fire, The 182
Plague of 1666 13
Plato 85
Playford, John English Dancing Master, The 147
playing cards 167, 168
PlayStations 24
Plough (constellation) see Ursa Major
ploughing 211
plum pudding 34
Poems of Early Childhood 183
Polly Put the Kettle On 154-6
Polo, Marco 211
Polydore Vergil 49
Poor Law Act 56
Poor Old Robinson Crusoe 156-7
Pop Goes the Weasel 158-62
Popular Rhymes of Scotland 251
porridge 124
potato 119
Powers, Richard K. 129
Prague 248
Presbyterian Church 111
Prestonpans, Battle of 98, 246
priest-holes 51
Prince Charming 113 ‘Princes in the Tower’ 66
prisons 64
Wakefield 64
Privy Council 46
privy counsellors 135
prostitutes 123
prostitution 189
Protectorate 72
Protestantism 35
Protestants 135, 202
pub crawls 161
Pudding Lane 149
Punch and Judy 162-4
Puritans 105, 179, 251
Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat 164-6
Pye, Henry James (poet laureate) 193-4
Pyramus and Thisbe 62-3
Quakers 267
Queen of Hearts, The 83, 166, 222
quilts 268
Rackham, Calico Jack 90
rags-to-riches 113
Rain, Rain, Go Away 169-70
Raleigh, Sir Walter 119
Ratcliffe, Sir Richard 207
Ravenscroft, Thomas 215
Deuteromelia 215
Melismata 215
Pammelia 215
Read, Mary 91
Recruiting Officer, The 217
Red Sky at Night 170-71
Redstone School 132-3
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November 97, 172-5
Restoration 43
Reynolds, Joshua 123
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 7
Richard I 93-4
Richard II 218-9
Richard III 66, 68, 69, 110, 207
Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York 58, 59, 60
riddles 85
Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross 4, 106, 176-9, 251
Ridley, Nicholas 214
Ring-a-Ring o’ Roses 180-83
Rizzio, David 112
robins 237
Rock-a-Bye, Baby 54, 97, 184-6
Roman Catholic Church see Catholic Church
Roman Catholicism see Catholicism
Roman Empire 142
Romeo and Juliet 63
Roulstone, John 132-3
rounds 121, 218
Royal Academy of Music 223
Rub-a-Dub-Dub 186-7
Rufus, William 122
Rufus Stone 236-7 ‘Rule Britannia’ 245
runcible 153-4
Runnymede 94
Rupert, Prince 204
St Albans, Battle of 59
St Bartholomew’s Hospital 220
St Catherine, feast of 92
St Ceneu ap Coel 142
St Clement Danes 148
St Clement’s Church 147-8
St Helena 142
St James’s, London 73
St Leonard’s 102
St Leonard’s Church 150
St Martin Orgar 148
St Martin’s Church 148-9
St Paul 192
St Paul’s Cathedral 122
St Sepulchre-without-Newgate 149-50
St Simeon of Ermesa 191, 192
miracles 192
St Stephen’s Day 28
St Thomas’s Hospital 220
Salisbury, Earl of 60
Salmagundi 199
Salmagundi 199
Sandman 230
Saturn 137
Sawyer, Mary 130-33
Saxe, John Godfrey 19, 20
Scotland 97
Scott, Sir Walter 262
Scottish Presbyterian movement 267
sea shanties 21
Second Jacobite Rebellion 246
Second World War 82, 122, 248
See-Saw, Marjorie Daw 188-9
see-saws 188
Selkirk, Alexander 156-7
Sepher Haggadah 80
seven 199
Seven Years’ War 270
Severn (river) 32
Shakers 251
Shakespeare, William 29, 69, 89, 110
King Lear 101
Merchant of Venice, The 30
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A 62, 89
Romeo and Juliet 63
Tempest, The 29
shamans 125
Sharp, Sir Cuthbert 254