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Eyewitness to history
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Harvard University Press
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[1987]
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English
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Plague in Athens, 430 BC / Thucydides
The Greeks march to the sea, 401 BC / Xenophon
The death of Socrates, 399 BC / Plato
Caesar invades Britain, 55 BC / Julius Caesar
Rome Burns, AD 64 / Tacitus
The siege of Jerusalem, AD 70 / Josephus
The eruption of Vesuvius, 24 August, AD 79 / Pliny the Younger
The deification of the Emperor Septimius Severus, AD 211 / Herodian
Dinner with Attilla the Hun, c. AD 450 / Priscus
A Viking funeral, AD 922 / Ibn Fadlan
The green children, c. 1150 / William of Newburgh
The murder of Thomas Becket, 29 December 1170 / Edward Grim
Richard I massacres prisoners after taking acre, 2
20 August 1191 / Beha-ed-Din
Kublai Khan's Park, c. 1275 / Marco Polo
Mishaps in childhood, 1301
37 / Calendar of Coroner's Rolls
The Battle of Crecy, 26 September 1346 / Sir John Froissart
The black death, 1348 / Henry Knighton
Women ape men, 1348 / Henry Knighton
The capture of Guines, January 1352 / Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbrook
False mutes, October 1380 / City of London Letter-books
The peasants' revolt, May
June 1381 / Sir John Froissart
The Battle of Agincourt, 25 October 1415 / Jehan de Wavrin
Norwegian Fisherfolk, 1432 / Cristoforo Fioravanti
The New World, January
February 1502 / Amerigo Vespucci
A Salamander, 1505 / Benvenuto Cellini
Spanish atrocities in the West Indies, c. 1513
20 / Bartolome de Las Casas
The performing ass, Cairo, 1516 / John Leo
Human sacrifice among the Aztecs, c. 1520 / Jose de Acosta
The Incas' Golden Garden, c. 1530 / Garcilaso de la Vega
The progress of the English Reformation, 1537
8 / John London, Roger Townshend, Richard Layton, Geoffrey Chamber
With the Spaniards in Paraguay, 1537
40 / Hulderike Schnirdel
The execution of Archbishop Cranmer, 21 March 1556 / Anon.
Prisoners of the Inquisition, 1568
75 / Miles Phillips
The sack of Antwerp by a Spanish Army, 4 November 1576 / George Gascoigne
The arrest of the Catholic priest Edmund Campion and his associates, 17 July 1581 / Anon.
Some London criminals, 1581 / William Fleetwood
Babylon in 1583 / John Eldred
Natural childbirth in India, 1583 / John Huyghen Van Linschoten
Shipwreck off Mozambique, August 1585 / John Huyghen Van Linschoten
A London merchant in Cairo, 1586 / John Sanderson
The execution of Mary Queen of Scots, 8 February 1586 / Robert Wynkfielde
The seasons in Russia, 1589 / Giles Fletcher
The last fight of the Revenge, 13 September 1591 / John Huyghen Van Linschoten
Trapped in the Arctic Ice, 1596 / Gerrit de Veer
A Jesuit is tortured in the tower, 14
15 April 1597 / John Gerard
A private audience with Elizabeth I, 8 December 1597 / Andre Hurault
English merchants in Java, c. 1602 / Edmund Scot
The effects of Elizabethan policy in Ireland, 1602 / Fynes Moryson
Newfoundland Mermaid, 1610 / Richard Whitbourne
Whirling dervishes, 1613 / Thomas Coryate
The magnificence of the Great Mogul, 1616
17 / Sir Thomas Roe
The Great Mogul: his cruelty, 1618 / Edward Terry
The murder of the Duke of Buckingham, 23 August 1620 / Sir Dudley Carleton
Landing in New England, November 1620 / William Bradford
Oliver Cromwell writes to his brother-in-law after the Battle of Marston Moor, 2 July 1644 / Oliver Cromwell
Circumcision: Rome, 16 January 1645 / John Evelyn
Suttee, c. 1650 / Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
George Fox visits Lichfield, 1651 / George Fox
Religious observances in Dunkirk, 1662 / John Greenhalgh
The fire of London, 2 September 1666 / Samuel Pepys
The great frost, January 1684 / John Evelyn
The English love of fighting, 1695 / Misson de Valbourg
Conditions of life aboard the French Galleys, 1703
4 / John Bion
The Battle of Schellenberg, 2 July 1704 / M. de la Colonie
Robinson Crusoe found, 2 February 1709 / Woodes Rogers
Bull-baiting: London, 1710 / Zacharias Conrad Von Uffenbach
Turkish bath: Adrianople, 1 April 1717 / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Albatross shot, 1 October 1719 / George Shelvocke
Solar eclipse, 10 May 1724 / William Stukeley
Pantomimes and gladiators, February 1728 / Cesar de Saussure
The Princess of Wales is delivered of a daughter, 31 July 1737 / Lord Hervey
Crossing the Alps, November 1739 / Thomas Gray
Scurvy, 1741 / Richard Walker
John Wesley preaches in Hull, 24 April 1752 / John Wesley
Kitten overboard, 11 July 1754 / Henry Fielding
The black hole of Calcutta, 21 June 1756 / J. Z. Holwell
The burial of George II, 13 November 1760 / Horace Walpole
The King of Ethiopia expresses displeasure, 23 December 1770 / James Bruce
Dr. Johnson's playfulness, 10 May 1773 / James Boswell
Christmas Day at New College, Oxford, 1773 / James Woodforde
Garrick plays Hamlet, September 1775 / Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The Gordon riots, 8 June 1780 / George Crabbe
Ranelagh, 12 June 1782 / Carl Philipp Moritz
Midshipman Gardner (aged 12) in action against the French, 20 October 1782 / James Anthony Gardner
The first manned flight in England, 15 September 1784 / Vincent Lunardi
Louis XVI and the French Royal Family, prisoners at the Tuileries, 4 January 1790 / Arthur Young
Chateaubriand Lands in the New World; Chesapeake Bay, 1791 / Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
Marie-Antoinette at the opera, July 1792 / Grace Elliott
A trip to Paris, July
August 1792 / Richard Twiss
The execution of Louis XVI / Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont
The revolutionary tribunal, Paris, October 1793 / J. G. Millingen
Nelson loses an arm, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, 25 June 1797 / William Hoste
The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798 / John Nichol
Beggars, a leech gatherer, and daffodils: the Wordsworths at Grasmere, 1800
1802 / Dorothy Wordsworth
Nelson turns a blind eye, Copenhagen, 2 April 1801 / Colonel William Stewart
Childsplay in the Lake District, 27 September 1802 /
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The morning of Trafalgar, 10 a.m., 21 October 1805 / Midshipman Badcock
Trafalgar: Nelson sends the signal 'England expects that every man this day will do his duty'. Noon, 21 October 1805 / Lieutenant George Brown
Trafalgar: reception of the signal, 21 October 1805 / Lieutenant Ellis
The death of Lord Nelson, 21 October 1805 / Dr. William Beatty
Seeing the Elgin marbles for the first time, summer 1808 / B. R. Haydon
After the Battle of Rolica, 17 August 1808 / Rifleman Harris
The British retreat to Corunna, 1
4 January 1809 / Robert Blakeney
Taken prisoner at Corunna, 16 January 1809 / Sir Charles Napier
A mastectomy, 30 September 1811 / Fanny Burney
Napoleon enters Moscow, 14 September 1812 / Baron Claude-Francois de Meneval
Death of a climbing boy, 29 March 1813 / Anon.
Wounded at Nivelle, 10 November 1813 / Robert Blakeney
Execution by impalement: Latakie, 1813 / Charles Lewis Meryon
The retreat before Waterloo, 17 June 1815 / Lieutenant W. B. Ingilby
Waterloo, 18 June 1815: Dawn with the 7th Hussars / Sergeant-Major Edward Cotton
Waterloo, 18 June 1815: Charge of the Scots Greys and 92nd Highlanders, 2
3 p.m. / Lieutenant R. Winchester
Waterloo, 18 June 1815: the royal horse artillery repulse enemy cavalry, late afternoon / Field Captain A. C. Mercer
Waterloo, 18 June 1815: Napoleo's last throw
charge of the imperial guard, 7 p.m. / Captain H. W. Powell
Waterloo, 18 June 1815: the finale / Captain J. Kincaid
Embalming a patriarch, November 1815 / Charles Lewis Meryon
Factory conditions, c. 1815 / Elizabeth Bentley
Prison visiting, 4 March 1817 / Elizabeth Fry
Peterloo, 16 August 1819 / Samuel Bamford
Cremation of the poet Shelley, near Leghorn, 15 August 1822 / Edward John Trelawny
Exit George IV, 1830 / Mrs. Arbuthnot
The opening of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway, 15 September 1830 / Frances Ann Kemble
Cholera in Manchester, 1832 /
Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth
Birds in the Galapagos Archipelago, September 1835 / Charles Darwin
The coronation of Queen Victoria, 29 June 1838 / Charles Greville
London prostitutes, 1839 / Flora Tristan
Death by guillotine: Rome, 8 March 1845 / Charles Dickens
American slavery: sale of slaves, Virginia, December 1846 / Dr. Elwood Harvey
American slavery: punishment of a female slave, New Orleans, c. 1846 / Samuel Gridley Howe
The Irish potato famine: victims of the great hunger, Castlehaven, 22 February 1847 / Elihu Burritt
Flaubert and the dancing girls: Esna, Egypt, 6 March 1850 / Gustave Flaubert
Inside the Crystal Palace: the great exhibition, 1851 / Charlotte Bronte
The Farringdon Watercress Market, 1851 / Henry Mayhew
Louis Napoleon's troops subdue Paris, 4 December 1851 / Victor Hugo
Victoria and Albert in the Highlands, 11 October 1852 / Queen Victoria
The Japanese are introduced to western technology, March 1854 / Commodore Matthew C. Perry
The Battle of Balaclava and the charge of the light brigade, 25 October 1854 / William Howard Russell
The Indian mutiny: scene of the Massacre of British Women and Children at Cawnpore, 21 July 1857 / Anon.
The Indian mutiny: retribution for the massacre, July 1857 / General Havelock
The Indian mutiny: household arrangements in besieged Lucknow, 1857 / Adelaide Case
Single combat in the Caucasus, 1858 / Alexandre Dumas
Explosion on board Brunel's Great Eastern Steamship, 12 September 1859 / George Augustus Sala
The Times correspondent helps Garibaldi liberate Palermo, 27
31 May 1860 / Nando Eber
Derby Day, 28 May 1861 / Hippolyte Taine
The American Civil War: General Grant besieges the Confederate forces in Vicksburg, May 1863 / Samuel Wilkeson
The Great March: General Sherman lays waste the South, October 1864
February 1865 / George Nichols
The Great March: General Sherman's 'Bummers', March 1865 / Elias Smith
The murder of President Lincoln, 14 April 1865 / Walt Whitman
Americans abroad, 1867 / Mark Twain
The suppression of the Paris Commune, 23
24 May 1871 / Archibald Forbes
The Paris Commune: the finale, 29 May 1871 / Archibald Forbes
Stanley finds Livingstone, 10 November 1871 / H. M. Stanley
The Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria, 2 August 1876 / J. A. MacGahan
An immigrant crosses America, 23 August 1879 / Robert Louis Stevenson
Paul Gauguin marries: Tahiti, 1892 / Paul Gauguin
The Graeco-Turkish War: the siege of Prevesa, 18 April 1897 / Richard Harding Davis
A seaside holiday, Norfolk Coast, August 1897 / W. H. Hudson
The attack on the Atbara, 10 April 1898 / George W. Steevens
The Battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898 / Winston Churchill
The Spanish-American War: The Battle of El Caney, Cuba, 1 July 1898 / James Creelman
The Battle of El Caney: the aftermath, 2 July 1898 / Stephen Crane
Jumping a train, 20 March 1899 / W. H. Davies
The Boer War: the suffering of the civilian population, Mafeking, April
May 1900 / J. E. Neilly
Queen Victoria's last journey, 1 February 1901 / Cissy, Countess of Denbigh
The first radio signal across the Atlantic, 12 December 1901 / Guglielmo Marconi
A roundabout in Montmartre, 4 November 1903 / Arnold Bennett
Bloody Sunday: St. Petersburg, 22 January 1905 / Father Gapon
The San Francisco Earthquake, 17 April 1906 / Jack London
The first channel flight, 25 July 1909 / Louis Bleriot
Suffragette Lady Constance Lytton, disguised as a lower-class woman, Jane Warton, is forcibly fed in Walton Gaol, Liverpool, 18 January 1910 / Constance Lytton
The arrest of Dr. Crippen, 31 July 1910 / Captain H. G. Kendall
The siege of Sidney Street, 3 January 1911 / Philip Gibbs
South Polar Expedition: Captain Scott's diary, March 1912 / Captain Scott
The Titanic: a fireman's story, 15 April 1912 / Harry Senior
The Titanic: the wireless operator's story, 15 April 1912
/ Harold Bride
The Titanic: from a lifeboat, 15 April 1912 / Mrs. D. H. Bishop
The Lemon Gardens under cover for winter: Gargnano, Lago di Garda, February 1913 / D. H. Lawrence
Columbo Curry, 11 November 1913 / Anna Buchan
GBS at his mother's funeral , 22 February 1914 / George Bernard Shaw
The murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, 28 June 1914 / Borijove Jevtic
The vulture, July 1914 / Osbert Sitwell
The German Army marches through Brussels, 21 August 1914 / Richard Harding Davis
War frenzy in St. Petersburg, August 1914 / Sergyei N. Kurnakov
Improving morale, 12 September 1914 / Brigadier General E. L. Spears
A Suffolk farmhand at Gallipoli, June 1915 / Leonard Thompson
Mobile hospital unit with the Russian Army, Galicia, 2 June 1915 / Hugh Walpole
With Austrian Cavalry on the Eastern Front, August 1915 / Oskar Kokoschka
Lance-Corporal Baxter wins the DCM, Western Front, September 1915 / Robert Graves
Gallipoli: the Allied evacuation, 19 December 1915 / Norman King-Wilson
U-Boat 202 attacks, April 1916 / Adolf K. G. E. von Spiegel
The Battle of Jutland: 'X' Turret, Battlecruiser Queen Mary, 31 May 1916 / Ernest Francis
The Somme: 21st Casualty Clearing Station, 1
3 July 1916 / The Reverend John M. S. Walker
The death of a brother, 15 July 1918 / Vera Brittain
The first tanks in action, 15 September 1916 / Bert Chaney
The end of Zeppelin L31, 1 October 1916 / Michael MacDonagh
Birds on the Western Front, 1916 / H. H. Munro ('Saki')
Gassed: Messines Ridge, 7 June 1917 / William Pressey
The Battle of Langemarck, 27 August 1917 / Edwin Campion Vaughan
The execution of Mata Hari, 18 October 1917 / Henry G. Wales
An American journalist at the storming of the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, 7 November 1917 / John Reed
Breslau Prison, December 1917 / Rosa Luxemburg
French Cavalry charge, near Amiens, 26 March 1918 / William Pressey
Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial Family shot in Ekaterinburg, 16 July 1918 / Pavel Medvedev
Incident on the advance to Damascus: Lawrence of Arabia destroys a Turkish Column, 24 September 1918 / T. E. Lawrence
Signing the Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919 / Harold Nicolson
Famine in Russia, October 1921 / Philip Gibbs
The execution of Henri D. ('Bluebeard') Landru, murderer of ten women, 25 February 1922 / Webb Miller
German inflation, 19 September 1922 / Ernest Hemingway
British India: civil disobedience, 21 May 1930 / Webb Miller
Hunger marchers, 27 October 1932 / Wal Hannington
Bodyline bowling, 13
19 January 1933 / W. H. Ferguson
The Reichstag Fire, 27 February 1933 / D. Sefton Delmer
The burning Ghats, Benares, India, December 1933 / Patrick Balfour
The arrest of Osip Mandelstam, 13 May 1934 / Nadezhda Mandelstam
The Rattenbury Case, May
June 1935 / James Agate
The Italian Campaign in Abyssinia: retreat of the Emperor's Army to Korem, 4 -5 April 1936 / Colonel Konovaloff
Abyssinia: an American journalist with the Fascist armoured column approaching Addis Ababa, 18 April 1936 / Herbert Matthews
The Spanish American War: Carlist Forces drive back the Basque Frente popular near Irun, 26 August 1936 / G. L. Steer
The Spanish Civil War: Guernica destroyed by German planes, 26 April 1937 / Noel Monks
The Spanish Civil War: wounded by a Fascist sniper, near Huesca, 20 May 1937 / George Orwell
The Louis-Schmeling fight, 22 June 1938 / Bob Considine
The Spanish Civil War: Nationalist planes bomb Barcelona, September 1938 / Marcel Junod
The Second World War: the evacuation of children from London, 1 September 1939 / Hilde Marchant
Blitzkrieg: German breakthrough on the Meuse, 15 May 1940 / Erwin Rommel
Dunkirk: the beaches, 1 June 1940 / John Charles Austin
Dogfight over the channel, 3 September 1940 / Richard Hillary
London docks bombed, 7 September 1940 / Desmond Flower
The blitz: Chelsea, 14 September 1940 / Frances Faviell
Spoil in North Africa: Italian defeat at Nibeiwa, 12 December 1940 / Alan Moorehead
Bomb disposal: Llandaff, January 1941 / John Miller
German Airborne Invasion of Crete, 20 May 1941 / Baron Van der Heydte
Syria: British forces meet resistance from Vichy French, June 1941 / Alan Moorehead
Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 / John Garcia
The Japanese bomb Manila, 8 December 1941 / Carlos P. Romulo
Japanese Air and Submarine attack sinks HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, Singapore, 10 December 1941 / Cecil Brown
Auschwitz: the gas chambers, 25 December 1941 / Sophia Litwinska
Dachau: the medical experiments, 1941
5 / Dr. Franz Blaha
The fall of Kuala Lumpur: the city awaits the Japanese, 11 January 1942 / Ian Morrison
The sinking of the Tanjong Penang, 19 February 1942 / Anon.
Leningrad: during the blockade, April
July 1942 / A. Fadeyev
Five fatal minutes: Japanese carriers crippled, Battle of Midway, 4 June 1942 / Mitsuo Fuchida
Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942 / Ross Munro
Nazi extermination of the Jews in the Ukraine, October 1942 / Hermann Graebe
El Alamein: the end of the Africa Corps, 4 November 1942 / General Bayerlein
An English poet in the Western Desert, December 1942 / Keith Douglas
Stalingrad: December 1942 / Benno Zieser
Stalingrad: a war correspondent goes in after the German Capitulation, 4 February 1943 / Alexander Werth
German rout in the Korsun Salient, Central Ukraine, 17 February 1943 / Major Kampov
The execution of an Allied Intelligence Officer by the Japanese, New Guinea, 29 March 1943 / Anon.
Luftwaffe pilot: Tunisia, 7 April 1943 / Alan Moorehead
Hamburg, 27 July 1943 / Else Wendel
US Marines land on Tarawa, 20 November 1943 / Robert Sherrod
A birthday: Japanese Prison Camp, Kuching, Borneo, 5 April 1944 / Agnes Newton Keith
Cassino: the final attack; 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Advance, 16 May 1944
/ Fred Majdalany
D-Day minus one: US paratroops leave for France, 5 June 1944 / General Matthew B. Ridgway
D-Day, 6 June 1944 / Anon.
The Germans meet a new foe, 7 June 1944 / Anon.
D-Day plus one: a British paratroop seeks directions, 7 June 1944 / James G. Bramwell
Buzz Bombs: an eight-year-old's recollections, June 1944 / Lionel King
The Russian summer offensive, July 1944 / Alexander Werth
The bombing of Caen, 7 July 1944 / Desmond Flower
The Naxi Extermination Camp, Maidanek, 23 July 1944 / Alexander Werth
American break-out in Normandy, 24
25 July 1944 / General Bayerlein
Birkenau Camp, August 1944 / Dr. Charles Sigismund Bendel
The fall of Aachen, 17 October 1944 / George Mucha
The bombing of Dresden, 14 February 1945 / Margaret Freyer
US troops advance into Germany, March 1945 / Lester Atwell
Italian Partisans assist the Allied Advance, near Trieste, 13 April 1945 / Geoffrey Cox
The end of the war for a British POW: Stalag IIID, Berlin, 14
29 April 1945 / Norman Norris
Luneburg, 20 April 1945 / Desmond Flower
Belsen, 24 April 1945 / Patrick Gordon-Walker
The fall of Berlin, 1 May 1945 / Claus Fuhrmann
Kamikaze attack, 9 May 1945 / Michael Moynihan
Nagasaki, 9 August 1945 / William T. Laurence
Visiting Hiroshima, 9 September 1945 / Marcel Junod
The execution of Nazi war criminals, 16 October 1946 / Kingsbury Smith
Revenge killing, Arabia, November 1946 / Wilfred Thesiger
Grand National, 29 March 1947 / John Hislop
Stalingrad, 1949 / John Steinbeck
Trafalgar Square incident, 23 September 1950 / Kingsley Martin
The Korean War: civilian casualty near Namchanjan, 17 October 1950 / Reginald Thompson
The Korean War: the American retreat from the Chongchon River, 27
28 November 1950 / Reginald Thompson
The Korean War: Padre Blaisdell and the refugee children, Seoul, December 1950 / Rene Cutforth
Rabbiting, 3 November 1952 / J. R. Ackerley
The conquest of Everest, 29 May 1953 / James (Jan) Morris
The intelligent bull, Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain, Spring 1957 / Norman Lewis
Stoning to death, Jeddah, February 1958 / R. M. Macoll
The Vietnam War: South Vietnamese casualty, 1965 / Gavin Young
The Vietnam War: a reporter with the Vietcong, near Hanoi, 10 December 1965 / James Cameron
The Vietnam War: winning hearts and minds, Tuylon, South Vietnam, 23 August 1967 / John Pilger
The Vietnam War: C Company, US 11th Infantry Brigade pacify My Lai, 16 March 1968 / Time Magazine Correspondent
The first men on the moon, 21 July 1969 / Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin
Veterans' March, Washington, DC, 25 April 1971 / John Pilger
'It was the Christians': the massacre at Chatila, 16
17 September 1982 / Robert Fisk
The fall of President Marcos, Manila, Philippines, 24 -25 February 1986 / James Fenton.
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