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Presents an overview of the history of England from the Saxons to today and provides lists of kings and queens with the date of they ruled, prime ministers, and one hundred key dates in the nation's history.
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A Short History of England: The Glorious Story of a Rowdy Nation
Mar 12, 2013, PublicAffairs
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1610392310 9781610392310
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A Short History of England
Oct 04, 2012, Profile Books, Profile Books Ltd
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1846684633 9781846684630
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A short history of England: the glorious story of a rowdy nation
2011, Public Affairs, PublicAffairs
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161039142X 9781610391429
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Saxon dawn : 400-600
The birth of England : 600-800
The Danes : 800-1066
William the Conqueror : 1066-1087
The Conqueror's children : 1087-1154
Henry and Becket : 1154-1189
Magna Carta : 1189-1216
Henry III and Simon de Montfort : 1216-1272
Hammering the Celts : 1272-1330
The Hundred Years War : 1330-1377
The Peasants' Revolt to the loss of France : 1377-1453
The Wars of the Roses : 1453-1483
Bosworth and Henry Tudor : 1483-1509
Henry VIII : 1509-1547
Reformation, Counter-Reformation : 1547-1558
Good Queen Bess : 1558-1603
Early Stuarts : 1603-1642
Civil War : 1642-1660
Restoration : 1660-1688
Glorious Revolution : 1688-1714
Walpole and Pitt the Elder " 1714-1774
From Boston to Waterloo : 1774-1815
The road to reform : 1815-1832
Victorian dawn : 1832-1868
Gladstone and Disraeli : 1868-1901
The Edwardians : 1901-1914
The First World War : 1914-1918
The locust years : 1918-1939
The Second World War : 1939-1945
The welfare state : 1945-1979
Thatcherism : 1979-1990
Thatcher's children : 1990-2011
Epilogue
One hundred key dates
Kings and queens of England from 1066
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
Author's Note.
Edition Notes
"First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Profile Books Ltd." -- T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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