Beerbohm, Max. 1872-1956. English caricaturist, satirist, dandy. Caricatures 1896.

Belize. 4-9C Maya. 17C Buccaneers. 17C English settle. 17,18C Slaves brought. 1862 Colony =British Honduras. 1964 Self-government. 1973 =Belize. 1981 Independent.

Belloc, Hilaire. 1870-1953. French/English writer: Bad Child’s Book of Beasts 1896. Cautionary Tales 1907.

Benefit of Clergy. 1170-1827. Literates and clergy exempt from trial by English civil court. 1489- Once only, branding. Jonson.

Benevolences. 1473-1689. Forced ’loans’ to English monarchs.

Bennett, Arnold. 1867-1931. English Staffordshire novelist. Meticulously detailed Naturalist. Clayhanger Series 1910.

Bentham, Jeremy. 1748-1832. English Utilitarian philosopher, jurist. Principles of Morals and Legislation 1789. Fragment on Government 1776.“Greatest happiness for the greatest number”.

Bentley, Richard. 1662-1742. English classical scholar. Restored texts. Editions of Horace, Terence, Aesop.

Beowulf. 8C Hero of Old English poem set in Denmark.

Besant, Annie. 1847-1933. English Theosophist. Founded Indian Home Rule League 1916.

Bessemer, Henry. 1813-98. English inventor of economical steel making process, 1856.

Bible. Hebrew and Christian sacred scriptures translated from Hebrew and Aramaic. 3C BC Greek translation. 1382 Wycliffe, Rogers, English. 1522-34 Luther, German. 1611 King James version. Vulgate by St. Jerome. Apocrypha.

Birch, Samuel. 1869-1955. English Cornish landscape painter.

Bishop, Henry. 1786-1855. English song composer: Home Sweet Home 1821.

Blackbeard (Edward Teach). -1718. English pirate in West Indies.

Blackmore, Richard. 1825-1900. English novelist: Lorna Doone 1869.

Blackstone, William. 1723-80. English common law scholar/jurist. Commentaries 1765-9.

Blake, Robert. 1599-1657. English Commonwealth admiral.

Blake, William. 1757-1827. English mystical poet and engraver of his own books. Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1790-3. Job 1821. Dante’s Divine Comedy 1825.

Bligh, William. 1754-1817. English captain of Bounty. Discovered breadfruit.

Bliss, Arthur. 1891-1975. English subjective composer. Colour Symphony 1922.

Bloomsbury Group. 1907-30. Agnostic English intellectuals searching for good, true, beautiful. Forster, Woolf, Keynes, Russell, Huxley, et.al.

Blow, John. 1649-1708. Westminster organist. First English opera, Venus and Adonis 1685.

Bolt, Robert. 1924-95. English dramatist. A Man for all Seasons 1960.

Booth, Charles. 1840-1916. English social reformer. 17 volume Life and Labour of the People in London 1891-1903.

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