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Index
Cover
Other Titles
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Figures
Introduction: Who Do We Think We Are?
Prelude: The Dreamtime
Part One: The Birth of a Nation
1. This Earth, This Realm c.600–1066
2. The Conqueror’s Kingdom
Five Centuries After Bede
Part Two: The English Unleashed
3. A Well Good Land
4. “The world is changed and overthrown”
Writing the Middle Ages: Shakespeare and Lesser Historians
Part Three: The Great Divide, c.1500–c.1700
5. Reformation
6. Revolution
The Civil War and “Whig History”
Part Four: Making a New World, c.1660–c.1815
7. And All Was Light
8. A Free Country?
9. The Rise and Fall of the Atlantic Nation
10. The First Industrial Nation
11. Wars of Dreams
Part Five: The English Century
12. Dickensian England, c.1815–c.1850
13. Victorian England
14. Imperial England, 1815–1918
Englishness in the English Century
Part Six: The New Dark Age, 1914–1945
15. The War to End War
16. The Twenty-Year Truce
17. The Edge of the Abyss, 1939–45
Memory, History and Myth
Part Seven: An Age of Decline?
18. Postwar
19. England’s Cultural Revolutions
20. Storm and Stress
21. Things Can Only Get Better, 1997–c.2014
Conclusion: The English and Their History
Notes
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
Illustrations
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