Table of Contents

Including:
Vindolanda Tablet Domesday Book Magna Carta Treaty of Perpetual Peace Elizabeth Tide Letter Drake's letter to Elizabeth I on victory over the Spanish Guy Fawkes confession Death Warrant of Charles I Wren's drawing for the dome of St Paul's Map of Battle of Blenheim Cook's chart of Botany Bay Bligh's Report on the Mutiny on the Bounty Battle Map of Trafalgar Wellington's Waterloo Dispatch Gladstone's slave compensation Penny Black Stamp Brunel's notebook Ada Lovelace letter to Charles Babbage Design for the Great Exhibition building Charge of the Light Brigade Order Rorke's Drift Dispatch Design for the FA Cup Scott's last diary entry Telegram from the Titanic Balfour's Declaration of Palestine Haig's 'backs to the wall' order First edition of the Radio Times Instrument of Abdication of Edward VIII Churchill's 'Finest Hour' speech Guy Gibson's logbook Ticket stub for Beatles first concert with Ringo Falklands Islands Surrender Queen's planned speech following a nuclear attack Tim Berners-Lee's memo for World Wide Web The Good Friday Agreement Ballot paper for the Scottish Referendum.

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Peter & Dan Snow's Treasures of British History contains 50 of the most fascinating documents in Britain's history.

About the Author

Peter Snow is a highly respected journalist, author and broadcaster. He was ITN's Diplomatic and Defence Correspondent form 1966 to 1979, and presented BBC's Newsnight from 1980 to 1997. For many years he was an indispensable part of election nights. Dan Snow is a historian who has researched, written and presented several documentaries and appears regularly on the BBC's One Show as their 'History Man'. His writing has appeared in the The Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Daily Express and BBC History Magazine.

Reviews

'A fascinating insight into pivotal events in Britain's past' BBC History Magazine.