List of Contents // L THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD...3 // PREHISTORIC MONUMENTS AND THE PEOPLE WHO BUILT THEM...3 // ?. CELTIC AND ROMAN BRITAIN...8 // 1. A CELTIC HERITAGE...8 // 2. CAESAR’S ATTEMPT TO CONQUER BRITAIN...10 // 3. THE CONQUEST OF BRITAIN BY CLAUDIUS...11 // 4. LIFE IN ROMAN BRITAIN...12 // HI. ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND...12 // 1. THE ANGLO-SAXONS...12 // 2. ALFRED THE GREAT...14 // 3. ANGLO-SAXON AND DANISH WARFARE...15 // 4. ANGLO-SAXON POETRY AND PROSE...16 // IV. THE MIDDLE AGES...18 // 1. MAIN DATES (EARLY MIDDLE AGES)...18 // 2. WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED AT HASTINGS...18 // 3. THE DOMESDAY BOOK...19 // 4. MAGNA CARTA...21 // 5. MAIN DATES (LATER MIDDLE AGES)...22 // 6. SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND THE BLACK DEATH (1348-49)...23 // 7. THE PEASANTS’ REVOLT, 1381...24 // 8. THREE EXTRACTS FROM MIDDLE-ENGLISH POETRY...27 // V. TUDOR ENGLAND...27 // 1. IMPORTANT DATES...27 // 2. THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA...28 // 3. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE...29 // 4. RENAISSANCE POETRY AND PROSE...32 // VI. STUART ENGLAND AND THE INTERREGNUM...32 // 1. IMPORTANT DATES...32 // 2. THE PETITION OF RIGHT...33 // 3. JOHN CALVIN AND PURITANISM...34 // 4. LIFE IN CROMWELL’S ENGLAND...35 // 5. FROM MILTON’S “PARADISE LOST”(1667)...36 // [1.18TH-CENTURY ENGLAND...36 // 1. IMPORTANT DATES...36 // 2. THE SEVEN YEARS WAR (1756-63)...37 // 3. 18™-CENTURY ELECTIONS...38 // 4. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND METHODISM...39 // 5. THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE...40 // 6. LITERARY CLASSICISM...42
VHI. 19TH-CENTURY BRITAIN...42 // 1. IMPORTANT DATES...42 // 2. WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE 19th CENTURY: CHILDREN AND WOMEN ...43 // 1 // 3. THE IRISH FAMINE...46 // 4. MID-VICTORI AN BRITAIN...47 // 5. AN AGE OF EXPANSION...48 // IX. 20TH-CENTURY BRITAIN...49 // 1. IMPORTANT DATES...49 // 2. THE MAKING OF THE WELFARE STATE...50 // 3. MIGRATION AND MULTI-CULTURAL BRITAIN...52 // 4. CHANGES IN ATTITUDES AND OPINIONS...54 // 2