Chapter 1 - The Ancient Brits9
Ancient Rome
The Roman Invasion of Britain
Roman Britain
The End of the Roman Empire
Chapter 2 - The Dark Ages33
The Legendary King Arthur
The Anglo-Saxon Invasion & Settlement
The Vikings
The Battle of Hastings and All That
William the Conquistor
Chapter 3 - The Middle Ages51
Richard the Loinheart & John
Robbing Hood
Parliament (pron. "Par-lee-ay-ment")
Edward I "the Hammer"
The Hundred Years War
Chapter 4 - The Tudors67
Henry VII
Henry VIII or "Gruff King Hal"
The Restoration (Prostratantism)
The Renuissance
Elizabeth I, The Virgin Queen a.k.a. The Faerie Queen
a.k.a. Glory Anna
The William Shakespeare Company
Chapter 5 - The Stuarts (or Stewarts)85
The Gunpowder Plot
Charles I & the English Civil War
The Reformation of Charles II, the Merry Monarch
James II
The Glorious Revolution
Queen Anne
Chapter 6 - The Hunnoverians &
the Building of the Empire99
The Southsea Bubble
Yet Another Scotch Problem: "The 45"
The Founding of the British Empire
George III, the Mad King
The American War of Dependents
The French Revolution
Chapter 7 - The Industrial Revelation &
Napoleonic Wars119
The Industrial Revelation
The Napoleonic Wars
Chapter 8 - George IV, William IV &
the Victorian Errar149
England After Waterloo
The Romantic Errar
Queen Victoria
The End of History
Acknowledgements164
About the Author165
