History
From the first settlers to the modern state: kings, queens, wars and reforms.
Chapter 3 of 5 · 14 topics
- Early BritainThe first people · The first farmers and Stonehenge · Skara Brae · The Bronze Age · The Iron Age
- Roman BritainThe Romans arrive · Hadrian's Wall · Four hundred years of Roman rule
- Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and the first kingdomsThe Anglo-Saxons · Christianity spreads · The Vikings · Alfred the Great and the Danelaw · One England, and the start of Scotland
- 1066 and the NormansThe Battle of Hastings · What the Normans changed · Feudalism
- The Middle Ages: wars and plagueWales and Scotland · Ireland and the Pale · Wars abroad · The Black Death
- The Middle Ages: law, language and cultureMagna Carta · The first Parliaments · Judges and the law · How English was born · Chaucer, Caxton and Barbour · Castles, cathedrals and trade · Skilled people from abroad · The Wars of the Roses · Henry VII and the Tudor rose
- The TudorsHenry VIII breaks with Rome · Henry VIII's six wives (1) · Henry VIII's six wives (2) · The Reformation · Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey and Mary I · Elizabeth I · The Reformation in Scotland · Mary, Queen of Scots · Explorers and the first colonies · William Shakespeare · Shakespeare's words today
- The Stuarts and the Civil WarJames I and the King James Bible · Ireland and the plantations · Charles I and Parliament · The Civil War begins · The Commonwealth and Oliver Cromwell · The Restoration · Plague and fire in London · Habeas Corpus and the Royal Society · Isaac Newton · James II, a Catholic king · The Glorious Revolution · The Boyne, Killiecrankie and Glencoe
- Parliament takes chargeThe Bill of Rights · Whigs, Tories and a free press · Rotten boroughs · New arrivals · The Union of 1707 · George I and the first Prime Minister · Bonnie Prince Charlie and Culloden · The Highland Clearances · Robert Burns · The Enlightenment
- Industry, trade and empireThe Industrial Revolution · Steel, ships and railways · Richard Arkwright · Trade and colonies · Sake Dean Mahomet · The slave trade · Ending the slave trade · Workers after slavery · American independence · Wars with France · The Union Flag
- Victorian BritainQueen Victoria and the Empire · Free trade and better working conditions · Workshop of the world · Railways and Brunel · The Crimean War · Florence Nightingale · Ireland in the 19th century · Home Rule · The right to vote · Women's rights and the suffragettes · Emmeline Pankhurst · Doubts about the Empire · Rudyard Kipling
- The First World War and afterA time of reform · The First World War · The Somme and the end of the war · Ireland is divided · The Great Depression · Culture between the wars
- The Second World WarThe road to war · Dunkirk · The Battle of Britain and the Blitz · Winston Churchill · A world war · The war against Japan ends · Alexander Fleming
- Britain since 1945The welfare state · Attlee, Beveridge and Butler · A new place in the world · Workers from abroad · The Swinging Sixties · British inventions: television to computers · British inventions: DNA, jets and hovercraft · British inventions: cash machines to the web · Dylan Thomas · Troubled 1970s · Mary Peters · Britain and Europe · Margaret Thatcher · The Falklands and John Major · Roald Dahl · Tony Blair, devolution and peace · Wars in the Gulf, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq · Coalition and the EU referendum · Brexit and recent Prime Ministers