Includes index

An ancient people in an ancient land : -- 1. Ice, sea and land -- 2. The first farmers -- 3. A ritual landscape -- 4. Celtic Britain -- 5. The Roman province -- 6. The coming of the English -- 7. The Vikings invade

Medieval Kingdoms : -- 8. The kingdoms in Britain and Ireland -- 9. Norman conquest to Magna Carta -- 10. A new church and society -- 11. Working in country and town -- 12. Conquest and resistance -- 13. Growing up in medieval times -- 14. Gunpowder, treason and war

Crown, parliament and people : -- 15. Changing times -- 16. Rival kings -- 17. Divided Christians -- 18. Queen and people -- 19. The path to war -- 20. Cavaliers and roundheads -- 21. A king again -- 22. The wider world

United kingdom and British empire : -- 23. Trade and the first empire -- 24. A Hanoverian kingdom -- 25. Victory over Napoleon -- 26. Industrial change and political revolution -- 27. After Waterloo: fighting for power -- 28. The age of the railway -- 29. Victorian triumph and decline

From empire to Europe: a century of change: -- 30. Land of hope and glory -- 31. Your country needs you -- 32. 'Peace in our time' -- 33. The people's war -- 34. Winds of change -- 35. Britain in doubt -- 36. The twenty-first century

The English Royal line of Succession -- Kings and Queens of Scotland -- Prime Ministers 1721-1996

Surveys the social, economic, cultural, and technological developments in Great Britain and Ireland from the time of the first inhabitants through the twentieth century

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