Includes bibliographic references (page 149) and index.

The Middle Ages -- King Arthur -- Alfred 'the Great' -- Domesday Book -- The Turbulent Priest -- The Exchequer and Taxation -- Celtic Heroes -- Magna Carta -- Recording Government -- Westminster Abbey -- The Tower of London -- Simon de Montfort -- The Mother of Parliaments -- Patron Saints -- The Conquest of Wales -- Scotland: The Wars of Independence -- 'Alasse, Dethe, Alasse' -- 'Who was then the gentleman?' -- The Rise of the Vernacular -- Geoffrey Chaucer: the Poet as Civil Servant -- For Harry, England and St George -- William Caxton -- The Wars of the Roses -- Tudors and Stuarts -- Henry VIII and the Reformation -- Henry VIII and his Six Wives -- The Church and the People -- Gloriana -- Mary, Queen of Scots -- The Stuart Succession -- William Shakespeare -- Virginia: an Early American Colony -- Gunpowder, Treason and Plot -- Charles I -- Roundheads and Cavaliers -- The Commonwealth and the Lord Protector -- The Monarchy Restored -- The Great Fire of London -- The Glorious Revolution -- Sir Christopher Wren and St Paul's Cathedral -- The 18th and 19th Centuries -- The Union of 1707 -- The First Prime Minister -- Hallelujah Handel -- Bonnie Prince Charlie -- Britannia, Rule the Waves -- A Passage to India -- Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah -- The Industrial Revolution -- The Agricultural Revolution -- No Taxation Without Representation -- Captain Cook and Australia -- The Slave Trade -- England Expects -- A Romantic View -- Radicalism and Reform -- New Zealand -- Contacts with the East -- The Railway Age -- Victoria and Albert -- The Houses of Parliament and Big Ben -- Charles Darwin -- The Great Exhibition of 1851 -- London's Parks -- Women Reformers -- Two Victorian Authors -- Edinburgh and Cardiff -- Canada: The First Dominion -- Gladstone and Disraeli -- The Scramble for Africa -- The Victorian Underworld -- Somdomites and Revolutionaries -- And is there Honey still for Tea? -- Whisky and Beer -- Beside the Seaside -- A Good Sport -- Land of Hope and Glory -- The 20th Century -- Save Our Souls -- Scott of the Antarctic -- In an English Country Garden -- Votes for Women -- 'Oh What A Lovely War' -- 'Dulce et Decorum est' -- Lawrence of Arabia -- Balfour and Palestine -- The Abdication of Edward VIII -- The Beeb -- Their Finest Hour -- The Turn of the Tide -- The Welfare State -- Indian Independence -- The Cold War -- George Orwell -- Britain Celebrates: the Festival of Britain and the Coronation -- The White Heat of Technology -- The End of Empire -- The Commonwealth -- Britain in Europe -- Eisteddfodau and Thistles -- England Swings -- The Falklands Factor -- Multi-Cultural Britain.

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