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 Astor, John Jacob - and Astoria
 Astor, Nancy
 Astor, William Waldorf - Hever Castle
 Astoria - and the Lewis and Clark expedition
  - and the North West Company
 Astoria - and Fred Karno
 astrolabe - in Greek astronomy
  - and Hipparchus
 ASTROLOGY
 Astronomia nova - by Kepler
 Astronomer Royal
 Astronomiae... - by Tycho Brahe
 astronomical unit - calculated in 1672
 ASTRONOMY
  - tour through time
 Asturias - and the Visigoths
 Asunción - as early centre
 Aswan - the high dam and Suez
  - and Abu Simbel
 asylums - for the insane in 18th century
  - conditions in 19th century
  - become mental hospitals
  - emptied under Adolf Hitler
 As You Like It - by Shakespeare
  - brief account
 Atacama desert - and nitrates
 Atatürk - joins the Young Turks in 1908
 Aten - Egyptian sun-disk
 Athabasca, Lake - and Alexander Mackenzie
 Athanasius - and the New Testament
 Athelney - and Alfred the Great
 Athenaeum (London club)
 Athenia - sunk in 1939
 ATHENS
  - tour through time
  - and democracy
  - and homosexuality
  - and the City Dionysia
  - employment of slaves
  - first book trade
  - population of Attica
  - the boule or council
  - the ecclesia or assembly
  - the ten tribes imposed by Cleisthenes
  - theatre of Dionysus
  - sacked by Persians in 480 BC
  - and St Paul
 Atholl - earls and dukes of
 Atholl Highlanders - and Blair Castle
 Atkinson, Robert - Barber Institute
 Atkinson, William - Scone Palace
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