Full Index ‘N’

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