Harley, Robert. 1661-1724. British Tory Secretary of State 1704-8. Head of Tory ministry 1710-14.

Harper’s Ferry. 1859. John Brown raids arsenal to start slave uprising.

Harris, Joel. 1848-1908. US author: Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus stories. Tar-Baby 1904.

Hasdrubal. -207BC. Hannibal’s brother. Carthaginian commander.

Hauptman, Bruno. 1899-1936. Kidnaped and killed Lindbergh baby 1932. Executed.

Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. 1901. Br-US re Panama Canal.

Hearn, Lafcadio. 1850-1904. Translator; brought Japanese culture to West.

Heath, Edward. 1916-. British Conservative Prime Minister 1970-4. Common Market.

Hebrews. Original name for Jews. Descendants of Abraham.

Helgoland Bight, Battle. 1914. British defeat Germans in first WWI naval battle.

Henderson, Arthur. 1863-1935. British organizer of Labour Party.

Hengist and Horsa. 5C. Legendary Jute brothers, founded Kent. Fought Britons.

Henry II. 1519-59. French king 1547-. Repressed Protestants. Captured Calais 1558. Treaties of Chambord, Cateau-Cambrésis.

Henry IV. 1050-1106. Holy Roman Emperor, 1056-. Civil War. Struggles with Gregory VII led to excommunication. Worms Synod. Clement III.

Henry VI. 1421-71. King of England and France 1422-61, 70-1. Founded King’s College Cambridge, Eton. Lost France except Calais. Weakness led to War of Roses. Deposed.

Heptarchy. 5-9C. Seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England: Kent, Essex, Sussex, Wessex, Mercia, E. Anglia, Northumbria. Frequent wars.

Hercules, Pillars of. Straits of Gibraltar.

Hessians. German mercenaries fighting for Britain in American Revolution.

Hildebrandt, Johann von. 1668-1745. Austrian Baroque architect. Belvedere Palace 1700.

Hindemith, Paul. 1895-1963. German Gebrauchmusik movement composer. Music as social expression.

Hindenburg Line. 1917. German army’s Western Front. Breached 1918.

Historia Regum Britanniae. c1135. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s history of Britain from legendary founding. Popularized legends of King Arthur.

Hobbes, Thomas. 1588-1679. English Materialist Determinist philosopher. Nominalist. Royalist. Good is that which brings pleasure; evil, pain. Mind is the result of physical activity in the brain. Elements of Law 1640. Leviathan 1651.

Hobson, John. 1858-1940. British pre-Keynesian economist. Imperialism 1902.

Hobson, Tobias. Cambridge innkeeper who offered no choice of hired horse. -“Hobson’s choice”.

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