| Description |
319 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2011. |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
Presents an overview of the history of England from the Saxons to today and provides lists of kings and queens with the dates they ruled, prime ministers, and one hundred key dates in the nation's history. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Saxon Dawn: 410-600 -- The birth of England: 600-800 -- The Danes: 800-1066 -- William the Conqueror: 1066-1087 -- The Conqueror's children: 1087-1154 -- Henry and Becket: 1154-1189 -- Magna Carta: 1189-1216 -- Henry III and Simon de Montfort: 1216-1272 -- Hammering the Celts: 1272-1330 -- The Hundred Years War: 1330-1377 -- The peasants' revolt and the loss of France: 1377-1453 -- The War of the Roses: 1453-1483 -- Bosworth and Henry Tudor: 1483-1509 -- Henry VIII: 1509-1547 -- Reformation, Counter Reformation: 1547-1558 -- Good Queen Bess: 1558-1603 -- Early Stuarts: 1603-1642 -- Civil war: 1642-1660 -- Restoration: 1660-1688 -- Glorious Revolution: 1688-1714 -- Walpole and Pitt the Elder: 1714-1774 -- From Boston to Waterloo: 1774-1815 -- The road to reform: 1815-1832 -- Victorian dawn: 1832-1868 -- Gladstone and Disraeli: 1868-1901 -- The Edwardians: 1901-1914 -- The First World War: 1914-1918 -- The locust years: 1918-1939 -- The Second World War: 1939-1945 -- The welfare state: 1945-1979 -- Thatcherism: 1979-1990 -- Thatcher's children: 1990-2011 -- Epilogue. |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- History.
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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Great Britain -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781610392310 (pbk.) |
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1610392310 (pbk.) |
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