Chapter 3
A long and illustrious history
British history from the Stone Age to the 21st century: the invasions that shaped the country, the growth of Parliament and democracy, the Empire, two world wars and modern Britain. The biggest and most tested chapter of the handbook.
- 1Early BritainFrom Stone Age hunters to the Norman Conquest: prehistoric sites, the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings and 1066.
- 2The Middle Ages1066 to 1485: wars in Wales, Scotland, Ireland and France, the Black Death, Magna Carta, the birth of Parliament and the English language, and the Wars of the Roses.
- 3The Tudors and StuartsReligious upheaval under the Tudors, Elizabeth I's golden age, the Civil War and republic, the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution.
- 4A global powerFrom constitutional monarchy and the Union of 1707 to the Industrial Revolution, the slave trade, war with France, the Victorian Empire and the fight for the vote.
- 5The 20th centuryThe First World War, the partition of Ireland, the inter-war years and the Second World War.
- 6Britain since 1945The welfare state and NHS, post-war migration, the 1960s, great British inventions, Europe, Thatcher, devolution and the 21st century.