Stafford, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, ref 1
Stafford, Sir William, ref 1
Stamford Bridge, battle of (1066), ref 1
Standard, battle of the (1138), ref 1
standing stones see megaliths
Stanley, Thomas, Baron (later 1st Earl of Derby, ref 1
Stanley, Sir William, ref 1, ref 2
Stapledon, Walter le, Bishop of Exeter, ref 1
Stapleford Park, Leicestershire, ref 1
Star Carr, Yorkshire, ref 1
Star Chamber, ref 1
Statute of Jewry (1253), ref 1
‘Statute of Westminster the First’ (1275), ref 1, ref 2
Statute of Winchester, ref 1
Stephen, King: succeeds to throne, ref 1, ref 2
conflict with Matilda, ref 1
financial problems, ref 1
captured and imprisoned, ref 1
mistrusts centralized bureaucracy and devolves power, ref 1
succeeded by Henry II, ref 1
Stirling Bridge, battle of (1297), ref 1
stone of destiny (Lia Fáil; stone of Scone), ref 1
Stonehenge, ref 1, ref 2
Stony Stratford, ref 1
Stowe, John, ref 1
Strabo, ref 1
Stratford, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, ref 1
Stratford-upon-Avon: plan, ref 1
Strathclyde (kingdom), ref 1
Stratton, Adam de, ref 1
Suetonius, ref 1, ref 2
Suffolk, John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of, ref 1
Suffolk, Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of, ref 1
Suffolk, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of, ref 1, ref 2
Sully, John de, ref 1
surnames: introduced by Normans, ref 1
Sutton Hoo, ref 1
Sutton, Robert, ref 1
Swein Forkbeard, King of Denmark, ref 1
Swynford, Katherine, ref 1
Tacitus, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Tailboys, William, ref 1, ref 2
taxation: Roman, ref 1
and kingship, ref 1
under William the Conqueror, ref 1, ref 2
under Henry I, ref 1
under King John, ref 1
in Magna Carta, ref 1
under Edward I, ref 1, ref 2
raised during Great Famine (1313), ref 1
Edward III’s, ref 1
and Peasants’ Revolt (1381), ref 1, ref 2
Templars, Order of, ref 1
Tewkesbury Abbey, ref 1
Tewkesbury, battle of (1471), ref 1
Thame, Oxfordshire, ref 1
Thames, river: Bronze Age weapons and artefacts in, ref 1
prehistoric skulls in, ref 1
freezes (1309), ref 1
Thanet, Kent, ref 1
Thatcham, Berkshire, ref 1, ref 2 thegns, ref 1, ref 2
Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, ref 1
Theobald of Etampes, ref 1
Thirwell, John de, ref 1
Thomas, Earl of Lancaster: as rival to Edward II, ref 1, ref 2
executed, ref 1, ref 2
posthumous miracles, ref 1
on Richard II, ref 1
Thomas of Eldersfield, ref 1
Thomas of Woodstock see Gloucester, Thomas, Duke of
Thorpe, Norfolk, ref 1
Thurkill of Arden, ref 1
time see space and time
tin, ref 1
Tinchebray, battle of (1106), ref 1
Tiptoft, Sir John, ref 1
Tirel, Walter, ref 1
tithings, ref 1, ref 2
tombs: prehistoric, ref 1
see also burial
Tostig, Earl of the Northumbrians, ref 1
tournaments, ref 1
Tower of London: in Peasants’ Revolt, ref 1
Edward V and Richard of York confined and murdered in (‘Princes in the Tower’), ref 1, ref 2
towns: Anglo-Saxon development, ref 1
populations, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
free men in, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
fortified, ref 1, ref 2
grow under Plantagenets, ref 1
trade and manufacture, ref 1
communal government, ref 1, ref 2
character and conditions, ref 1
crafts and businesses, ref 1
civic rituals and routines, ref 1
literacy levels, ref 1
origins, ref 1
post-Roman, ref 1
see also villages
Towton, battle of (1461), ref 1
toys (children’s), ref 1
trade: Bronze Age, ref 1
in iron, ref 1, ref 2
with Vikings, ref 1, ref 2
wool, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
fifteenth century, ref 1, ref 2
trailbaston (courts), ref 1
travel: in medieval period, ref 1
Tresilian, Robert, ref 1
Trevelyan, George Macaulay, ref 1
Trevet, Nicholas, ref 1
trial by ordeal, ref 1
Trinovantes (tribe), ref 1, ref 2
troubadours, ref 1
Tudor family, ref 1
Tudor, Jasper see Pembroke, Earl of
Tudor, Owen, ref 1
Tusser, Thomas, ref 1
Twynyho, Ankarette, ref 1
Tyler, Wat, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
umbrella: introduced, ref 1
universities, ref 1
urn fields, ref 1
Usamah ibn Munqidh, ref 1
Varausius, ref 1
Vergil, Polydore, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Verulamium, ref 1
Vespasian, Roman Emperor, ref 1
Vikings (Norsemen): raids, ref 1, ref 2
villages: beginnings, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Iron Age, ref 1
regional variations, ref 1
Anglo-Saxon, ref 1
thrive under Henry II, ref 1
customs and traditions, ref 1
deserted, ref 1, ref 2
see also towns
villeins, ref 1, ref 2
violence: prevalence in medieval times, ref 1
Visigoths, ref 1
Vita Edwardi Secundi, ref 1
Vortigern (or Wyrtgeorn), ref 1
Voxe, John, ref 1
Wakefield, battle of (1460), ref 1
Wales: Agricola conquers, ref 1
name, ref 1
subdued by Harold and Tostig, ref 1
William Rufus moves against, ref 1
Henry I’s settlements in, ref 1
King John subdues, ref 1
Edward I campaigns against, ref 1, ref 2
castles, ref 1
Edward II born in, ref 1
supports Henry VI, ref 1
and Henry Tudor’s bid for throne, ref 1
and English monarchy, ref 1
union with England (1536), ref 1
Wallace, William, ref 1, ref 2
Walsingham, ref 1
Walsingham, Thomas, ref 1
Walter of Maidstone, ref 1
Walworth, William, ref 1
Wansdyke, ref 1
Warbeck, Perkin (‘Richard IV’), ref 1, ref 2
warrior aristocracy: in Bronze Age, ref 1
Wars of the Roses: origins, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
outbreak, ref 1, ref 2
conduct of, ref 1, ref 2
effect on English noble families, ref 1
end, ref 1
and claims to throne, ref 1