From the Tudors, A.D. 1485, to the Crimean War, A.D. 1856.
Maritime Discoveries. The Tudors, 1485-1603. The Great Civil War, 1642-1648. The Revolution of 1688. The Jacobite Rebellions. The Seven Years' War. The War of Independence. English Rule in India. The Peninsular War. Battle of Trafalgar. The Waterloo Campaign. The Crimean War.
Division of Territory after 30 years' War. Europe after Treaty of Utrecht. Europe after Treaty of Paris. Paris, A.D. 1789. Campaigns of A.D. 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795 & 1796. Peace of Amiens, A.D. 1802. Europe after Wagram. Congress of Vienna & Treaty of Paris. Central Europe, A.D. 1866. Franco-Prussian War. Eastern Europe, A.D. 1878. Balkan Peninsula, 1914.
(_Adopted by the London County Council._)
+The PLAN.+--The story, written in simple and attractive form, is on the left page. On the opposite page is an outline drawing, with full particulars for colouring, for the child to colour.
+The AIM.+--To show in story and picture how the boys and girls lived and dressed in those far-off days. To show what their homes were like. To provide an opportunity for comparing then and now.
PERIOD.--From the Cave Man to the Norman Conquest.
A Cave Man. A Cave Woman and her little boy. A Pit Dwelling and the People who live in it. A Pit Man at Work. The Lake Dwellers. A man making copper spear heads. A woman grinding corn.
Celts and Phoenicians exchanging goods. A Pict. Julius Cæsar looking at the shores of Britain. The Building of Hadrian's Wall. A Roman Road in Britain. A Roman Road in Britain to-day. Saxons building a house in Britain.
The Coming of St. Augustine. English Villagers pursuing a thief in the 7th century. The Northmen sailing up an English river. King Alfred visiting a school. Duke William of Normandy preparing to invade England. A Norman Noble riding through an English village in 1066. A Norman Manor House.
Price, each, net, +5+d.; post free, +6+d.
An original scheme of 23 lessons correlating +History+, +Geography+, +Literature+ and +Handwork+, covering the period from William I. to Queen Elizabeth.
Fully illustrated with designs for Paper or Cardboard Modelling and Free Paper Cutting.
In each lesson the historical narrative is followed by notes describing fully the correlated work to be done in connection with the story, _e.g._