Nagasaki 531, 532
Nantes
see Edict of Nantes (1598)
Napier, Sir Charles 438
Napoleon Bonaparte 411, 412, 414–15, 423
Napoleonic Wars 414–16, 423–4
Nash, Eric 528, 541
Nash, Paul 515
National Anthem 405–6
National Evangelical Anglican Congress (NEAC) 550, 556
National Health Service 535, 536, 566–7
National Insurance Act (1911) 504
National Secular Society 476
National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor 463
National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies 499
NATO Alliance 535
Navigation Acts
(1651) 356–7
18th century 411
Nayler, James 348
Nazis 519, 523, 524, 527
Nelson, Horatio, Lord 415, 423
Nennius (Welsh chronicler) 25
Nero, Emperor, persecution of Christians 10
Neville, Anne 228
New Frontiers 555
New Learning 243, 251, 257, 261
New Model Army 338, 339, 341, 343
New Testament, Westcott-Hort Version 473
New Wine (Christian festival) 562
Newbigin, Lesslie 525, 556, 573
Newbolt, W. C. E. 487
Newman, Henry 385
Newman, John Henry, Cardinal 444, 445, 446–9, 456–7, 458, 493–5, 572
Apologia Pro Vita Sua 494–5
“Dream of Gerontius” 495
Newton, Isaac 352, 361, 363, 364–6, 382, 390, 472
Newton, John 418
Amazing Grace 403
Nicaea, Council of
(325) 15, 18, 38
(787) 150
Nicholas II, Pope 86, 93
Nicholas II, Tsar 496
Nicholas of Hereford 218
Nicholas of Lyra 217
Nichols, Vincent, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster 572
Niebuhr, Reinhold 524
Niemoeller, Martin 524–5
Nietzsche, Friedrich 545
Nigeria 484
Nightingale, Florence 464–5, 492, 589, 596
Nine Years’ War 372
Nineham, Denis 548
Nixon, Richard 553
nobility of England, 14th century 133–4
Nonconformist, The (journal) 441
Non-Conformists
origins during the Commonwealth 348
and the Clarendon Code 353–6
19th century 458–62
burials 488–9
business owners 490
chapel building 490
20th century 508–10
decline in numbers 555
and hymn-singing 585–6
see also Dissenters
Non-jurors 372, 391
Norfolk, Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of 495
Norfolk, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of 269
Norfolk, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of 309
Norman cathedrals 94
Norman Conquest 87–92
Norman dynasty 75
Norris, Sir William 247
North, Frederick, Earl of Guildford (Lord North) 408, 410
Northern Earls uprising (1571) 308
Northern Ireland 372, 505, 553, 564
Northumberland, John Dudley, 1st Duke of (formerly Earl of Warwick) 270, 277–8, 283
Northumbrian Christianity
Irish influence 32–7
monasticism 46–9
Synod of Whitby 38–9
Theodore, Wilfrid and Cuthbert 40–6
Norton, Robert 302
Norwich 75, 84, 148, 305, 332
Nunnaminster Prayer Book 72