Hardy, Thomas. 1840-1928. English novelist: Far from the Madding Crowd 1874; Mayor of Casterbridge 1886; Jude the Obscure 1896. Man as victim of fate. -“the worth encompassed by the inevitable”.

Harpies. 3 half-woman half-bird creatures.

Harris, Arthur. 1892-1984. WWII air marshal. Saturation bombing.

Harris, Roy. 1898-1979. US National music composer. Oklahoma flavour. Assymetric rhythms.

Harrison, William. 1773-1841. US Pres 1841. Elected on slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too”. Died of pneumonia caught at inauguration.

Haskala. 18-19C Cultural movement to move European Jews from ghettos into mainstream.

Hatt-i Humayun. 1856. Turkish reform act, forced by major powers, but not always enforced.

Hayashi, Senjuro. 1876-1943. Japanese commander, Prime Minister 1937. Ordered invasion of Manchuria. WWII.

Haymarket Riot. 1886. Anarchist bomb kills 7 police at Chicago labour demonstration.

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

Hedonism. Philosophy of human pleasure.

Heidelberg Catechism. 1563. Calvinist confession used by Reformed churches.

Heinkel, Ernst. 1888-1958. German. First turbojet aircraft.

Hellenistic Art. c330-50BC. Cosmopolitan culturally diverse period of Alexander’s empire. Sensual, emotional sculpture. Dying Gaul. Laocoön.

Helvetic Confessions. 1636,62. Swiss Reform church doctrines. 2nd widely adopted.

Hemingway, Ernest. 1898-1961. US novelist: Fairwell to Arms 1929. For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940. Old Man and the Sea 1952. Style:“A stream with stones of nouns and a surface of prepositional ripples” -L. Morrow.

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

Hennepin, Louis. 1626-1701. Missionary explorer of Great Lakes. First European to Niagara Falls.

Henry, O. 1862-1910. US short-story writer. Surprise endings and irony. Gift of the Magi. Porter.

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 V. 1086-1125. German king 1106-, Holy Roman Emperor 1111-. Imprisoned pope 1111, ending investiture controversy. Concordat of Worms.

Henry V. 1387-1422. King of England 1413-. Claimed France. Victor at Agincourt. Treaty of Troyes.

Henry VIII. 1491-1547. King of England 1509-. Executed Thomas More. Established Church of England. Dissolved monasteries. Six wives: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr.

Hepplewhite, George. -1786. English Neoclassical furniture designer.

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