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Cover Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Contents INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: ENGLAND: THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE

The United Kingdom Relief

Lake District

Drainage Soils Climate Plant and Animal life Ethnic Groups and Language Religion Settlement Patterns

Church of England

Traditional Regions

The South West Stonehenge The South East London’s East End and West End The West Midlands The East Midlands East Anglia The North West Yorkshire The North East

Demographic Trends

CHAPTER 2: THE ENGLISH ECONOMY

Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing

Major Crops Sir Richard Arkwright Livestock Forestry Fishing

Resources and Power Manufacturing

Kaolin Lloyd’s of London

Finance Services

London Underground

Transportation

CHAPTER 3: ENGLISH GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY

Local Government

Act of Union (1707) Historic Counties Geographic Counties Administrative Counties and Districts Sheriff Unitary Authorities Metropolitan Counties and Districts Greater London Parishes and Towns

Justice

Roman Law

Political Process Health and Welfare Housing Education

CHAPTER 4: ENGLISH CULTURAL LIFE

Daily Life and Social Customs

Guy Fawkes Day

The Arts

Literature Architecture Covent Garden Visual Arts Performing Arts Mumming Play Skiffle

Cultural Institutions

British Museum

Sports and Recreation Media and Publishing

CHAPTER 5: ANCIENT BRITAIN

Neolithic Period Bronze Age Iron Age The Roman Conquest Condition of the Province

Army and Frontier Hadrian’s Wall Administration

Roman Society

Economy Towns Villas Religion and Culture

The Decline of Roman Rule

CHAPTER 6: ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND THROUGH THE NORMAN CONQUEST

The Social System

Wergild

The Conversion to Christianity The Golden Age of Bede The Heptarchy

The Supremacy of Northumbria and the Rise of Mercia The Great Age of Mercia Offa’s Dyke The Church and Scholarship in Offa’s time The Decline of Mercia and the Rise of Wessex

The Period of Scandinavian Invasions The Reconquest of the Danelaw The Kingdom of England The Church and the Monastic Revival The Danish Conquest and the Reigns of the Danish Kings The Battle of Hastings The Normans (1066–1154)

William I (1066–87) The Sons of William I The Period of Anarchy (1135–54) Domesday Book England in the Norman Period

CHAPTER 7: THE PLANTAGENETS

The Angevin Kings

Henry II (1154–89) Richard I (1189–99) John (1199–1216)

Henry III (1216–72)

Early Reign The County Communities Simon de Montfort and the Barons’ War Later Reign

Edward I (1272–1307)

Law and Government Finance The Growth of Parliament Edward’s Wars Domestic Difficulties and Changes

Edward II (1307–27) Edward III (1327–77)

The Hundred Years’ War, to 1360 Domestic Achievements Law and Order The Crises of Edward’s Later Years

Richard II (1377–99)

The Peasants’ Revolt (1381) John Wycliffe Political Struggles and Richard’s Deposition Economic Crisis and Cultural Change

The Lancaster and York Rivalry

Henry IV (1399–1413) Henry V (1413–22) Battle of Agincourt Henry VI (1422–61 and 1470–71) Edward IV (1461–70 and 1471–83) Richard III (1483–85)

CHAPTER 8: ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS

Henry VII (1485–1509)

Economy and Society Merchant Adventurers Dynastic Threats Financial Policy The Administration of Justice

Henry VIII (1509–47)

Cardinal Wolsey The King’s “Great Matter” The Reformation Background The Break with Rome The Consolidation of the Reformation The Expansion of the English State Henry’s Last Years

Edward VI (1547–53)

Book of Common Prayer

Mary I (1553–58) Elizabeth I (1558–1603)

The Tudor Ideal of Government Elizabethan Society Mary, Queen of Scots The Clash with Spain Internal Discontent Roberto Ridolfi

CHAPTER 9: THE STUARTS AND THE COMMONWEALTH

England at the Beginning of the 17th Century

Economy and Society Yeomen Government and Society

James I (1603–25)

Triple Monarchy Religious Policy Gunpowder Plot Finance and Politics Factions and Favourites

Charles I (1625–49)

The Politics of War Peace and Reform Religious Reform The Long Parliament Civil War and Revolution Commonwealth and Protectorate Diggers

Charles II (1660–85)

The Restoration War and Government Great Fire of London The Popish Plot The Exclusion Crisis and the Tory Reaction

James II (1685–88)

Church and King The Revolution of 1688

William III (1689–1702) and Mary II (1689–94)

The Revolution Settlement A New Society The Sinews of War

Anne (1702–14)

Whigs and Tories Tories and Jacobites

CHAPTER 10: 18TH-CENTURY BRITAIN, 1714–1815

The State of Britain in 1714

Treaties of Utrecht

Britain from 1715 to 1742

The Supremacy of the Whigs Opposition to Walpole The Electoral System Walpole’s Loss of Power War of Jenkins’s Ear

Britain from 1742 to 1754

The Jacobite Rebellion The Rule of the Pelhams Domestic Reforms

British Society by the Mid-18th Century

Joseph Massie’s Categories Urban Development Change and Continuity The Revolution in Communications

Britain from 1754 to 1783

Conflict Abroad East India Company Political Instability in Britain The American Revolution Domestic Responses to the American Revolution

Britain from 1783 to 1815

William Pitt the Younger Economic Growth and Prosperity The Industrial Revolution Britain During the French Revolution The Napoleonic Wars Imperial Expansion

CHAPTER 11: BRITAIN FROM THE 19TH CENTURY

Great Britain, 1815–1914

Britain After the Napoleonic Wars Peterloo Massacre Early and Mid-Victorian Britain Utilitarianism Jingoism Late Victorian Britain Siege of Khartoum

Britain from 1914 to the Present

The Political Situation Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor Battle of Britain State and Society Economy and Society Family and Gender Mass Culture Punk

Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index Back cover

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