Details British history from 1352 to 1946, covering nearly 600 years through the use of both famous and lesser known events which shaped Britain, using original documents and detailed research undertaken by The National Archives' record specialists. Among these are: the trial and execution of Anne Boleyn on the orders of her husband, Henry VIII, several major acts of sedition, including the Popish Gunpowder Plot and the revolution plotted in the Cato Street conspiracy, the evidence brought against the Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement, executed at Pentonville and his remains later exhumed and given a state funeral in Ireland, the trial and execution of the William Joyce who, as 'Lord Haw-Haw', broadcast Nazi propaganda from Berlin during the Second World War. The book covers many stories that explore the nature of treason and how the crown and state reacted to it, from the introduction of the Treason Act in 1352 right through to the twentieth century.