Study essentials Flashcards
Tricky Qs
George and Robert Stephenson were famous for?
Famous pioneers of railway engines
What are Henry Purcell and Ralph Vaughan Williams known for?
British composers
John Constable (1776–1837) is known for?
Landscape painter
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–59)
Engineer
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
established a training school for nurses
Who was William Wilberforce?
MP; abolitionist
The Battles of Marston Moor and Naseby
Civil war battles
Who is Jane Austen?
English novelist.
Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility
Adam Smith
Scottish economics. Enlightenment
David Hume
Scottish wrote about human nature. Enlightenment
William Blake, Lord Byron and Robert Browning
Poets
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Scottish doctor and writer. He was best known for his stories about Sherlock Holmes
Robert the Bruce
Scottish king defeated the English at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314
Battle of the Somme.
First World War did the British suffer 60,000 casualties on the first day
The Bill of Rights of 1689 limited whose powers?
confirmed the rights of Parliament and the limits of the king’s power
The Act of Union, known as the Treaty of Union in Scotland
created the Kingdom of Great Britain - 1707
1588
Defated the Spanish Armada
Tim Berners-Lee
Invented the world wide web
Wales united with England during the reign of Henry VIII
True. Act for the Government of Wales
Industrial revolution - England
The Industrial Revolution is the name given to the rapid development of industry that began in the 18th century.
Duke of wellington
Battle of Waterloo. Deafeated Napoleon
Bill of Rights was passed in 1689,
Whigs and Tories
Dylan Thomas
Welsh poet.
