Wade, John 424, 429
Waite, Terry 552, 560
Wake, William, Archbishop of Canterbury 391
Waldensians 219
Wales
Romano-Celtic Church 21, 31
subjugation by Edward I 127
Wall Street Crash (1929) 519, 523
Wallace, William 128
Walpole, Robert 376, 381, 385–6, 405
Walsingham, Sir Francis 302, 308, 309
Walsingham, Thomas 223
Walter, Hubert 118
Wantage Code 84
War of Austrian Succession (1740–48) 388, 389, 405
War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14) 375, 377
Warbeck, Perkin 237
Warburton, William, Bishop of Gloucester 398
Ward, Benedicta 97
Ward, W. G. 448
Warham, William, Archbishop of Canterbury 237, 241, 248–9, 252, 259
Warren, Max 525
Warren, Samuel 459
Wars of the Roses (1455–85) 220, 221, 224–9
Warsaw Pact (1989) 558
Warsaw Uprising 532
Warwick, Earl of 134
Warwick, Richard Neville, Earl of 224, 225, 226–7
Waterloo, Battle of (1815) 415, 423
Waterloo churches 432
Watson, David 550, 556, 562
Watson, James Dewey 538
Watson, Thomas, Bishop of Lincoln 298
Watt, James 411
Watts, Isaac 403, 415
Waugh, Benjamin 491
Waugh, Evelyn 527, 539
Weatherhead, Leslie 542
Webb, Beatrice 504
WEC International 592
Wedgwood, Josiah 411, 418, 490
Welby, Justin, Archbishop of Canterbury 574, 576–7
welfare state 533, 535, 536
Wellcome, Henry Solomon 491
Wellesley, Richard, 1st Marquess Wellesley 427
Wellhausen, Julius 474
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of 415, 423, 425, 427–8, 429–30, 438
Wells, Algernon 460
Wells, H. G. 512
Wells Cathedral 148, 583
Wentworth, Peter 301, 301–2, 303
Wentworth, Thomas Strafford, Earl of 334, 336–7
Werferth, Bishop of Worcester 63
wergild 77
Wesley, Charles 393–5, 403, 586
Wesley, John 391–402, 409, 418, 587, 589
Wesley, S. S. 585
Wesley, Samuel 392
Wesley, Susanna 392–3
Wessex 27, 56, 60–1, 62, 65, 69, 70
Wessex, Harold, Earl of 79
Wessex, House of 65–8, 72, 73–9
West, Benjamin 415
Westcott, B. F. 473–4
Westcott House, Cambridge 560
Westminster, Treaty of (1153) 107
Westminster Abbey
rebuilt by Edward the Confessor 78
coronations 87, 89, 270
royal weddings 103
royal burials 86, 148, 213, 283
rebuilt by Henry III 124
Cromwell exhumed from 353
Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee (1887) 496
burial of the Unknown Soldier 520
Westminster Confession of Faith (1647) 346
Westminster Hall 126
Whatley, Richard 444–5
Whigs 352, 360, 381
Whitby, Synod of (664) 38–9, 591, 593
Whitby Abbey 37, 46, 53
White, John, Bishop of Winchester 298, 299
White Fathers 484, 543
White Mountain, Battle of (1620) 325
Whitfield, George 391, 393, 396–7, 398, 400, 401
Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury 303, 321
Whittaker, William 311
Whitworth, Charles, 1st Earl Whitworth (Lord Whitworth) 414
Whitworth, Rex 543
Wighard 40
Wiglaf, king of Mercia 56
Wilberforce, Henry 450, 469
Wilberforce, Robert 469
Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford 455, 468, 472
Wilberforce, William 415, 416, 418, 419–22, 482, 589, 596
Wilde, Oscar 505
Wilfrid, Bishop of York; Abbot of Ripon 39, 41–4, 45, 46, 53
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 467, 496–7
Wilkes, John 407
Willbrord of York 138
William, Duke of Normandy (‘the Conqueror’) 78–9, 86, 87–90, 92, 100
William de Roches 119
William de St Calais 91, 95
William de Vere, Bishop of Hereford 174
William III, King of England (William of Orange) 369–70, 371–3, 375
William IV, King 429, 430, 435, 438
William of Auxerre 169
William of Eynsford 109
William of Malmesbury 52, 145, 148
William of Newburgh 132, 145
William of Ockham 171, 178, 179–80, 214, 216, 581
William of Orange (d. 1584) 313
William of Poitiers 88
William of Wykeham 228
William Rufus, King of England 98, 100, 101
Williams, John, Bishop of Lincoln 335–6
Williams, Rowan, Archbishop of Canterbury 104, 568, 569–74
Williams, Rowland 475
Williams, Shirley 559
Willibrord 50–1
Wilson, H. B. 475
Wilson, Harold 543, 545, 553
Wilson, Henry 475
Wilson, Leonard, Bishop of Singapore 532
Wilson, Woodrow 518
Wilton Diptych 212
Wimber, John 561–2
Winbert, Abbot of Nursling 51
Winchester 63, 65, 69, 70, 78
synod (1072) 95
Winchester, Henry, Bishop of 104
Winchester Bible 104, 145
Winchester Cathedral 283
Winchilsea, George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of 427
Windrush, S. S. 536
Winnington Ingram, Arthur, Bishop of London 507, 527
Winstanley, Gerald 342
Winter of Discontent (1978–79) 553
Winterbourne, William 437
Winthrop, John 330
Winwaed, Battle of 52
Wiseman, Nicholas, Cardinal 457–8, 492
witan (council) 70, 77, 84, 87
witches 352
Wittenberg 247–8
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 540
Woden (god) 26
Wolfenden Report 546
Wollstonecraft, Mary 414
Wolsey, Garnet, General 497
Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal 238–42, 247, 249, 258, 260
Wolstenholme, Elizabeth 492
women
as Bishops 572–3, 576
“churching” of 150
and infant baptism 316
and Methodism 398
ordination 556, 563–4
repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act (1886) 492
suffrage 499, 503, 518, 590
Wood, Wilfred, Bishop of Croydon 559
Woodstock, Council of (1163) 109
wool trade 132, 133
Worcester, Battle of (1651) 344
Worcester Cathedral 120, 148, 272
Worcester House Conference 353
Wordsworth, Christopher, Bishop of Lincoln 474, 488
Wordsworth, William 413, 443
workhouses 387, 430–1, 477
World Bank 535
World Congress of Evangelism (1966) 549
World Council of Churches
(1938) 525
(1968) 549–50
World Evangelization Crusade (WEC International) 485
World Horizons 592
World Methodist Conference 542
world-wide web 566
Wormald, Patrick 64
Worms, Diet of 248
worship, English 583–7
Wraxall, Sir George 424
Wren, Christopher 352, 363–4
Wright, N. T. 560
Wright, Tom 573
Wulfhere, king of Mercia 41, 52
Wulfstan II, Bishop of Worcester; Archbishop of York 70, 77, 89, 92
Wulfstan of Winchester 70
Wyatt, Thomas (the Younger) 284
Wyatt’s rebellion (1554) 283, 295
Wyclif, John 180, 213–21, 227–8, 581
Wycliffe Bible Translators 592
Wynkyn de Worde 184