A Long and Illustrious History

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In this chapter

Introduction
3.1.1 The Romans
3.1.2 The Anglo-Saxons
3.1.3 The Vikings
3.1.4 The Norman Conquest
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3.2.1 War at home and abroad
3.2.2 The Black Death
3.2.3 Legal and political changes
3.2.4 A distinct identity
3.2.5 The Wars of the Roses
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3.3.1 Religious conflicts
The six wives of Henry VIII
King Henry VII
3.3.2 The Reformation in Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots
Queen Elizabeth I
3.3.3 Exploration, poetry and drama
3.3.4 James VI and I
The King James Bible
3.3.5 Ireland
3.3.6 The rise of Parliament
3.3.7 The beginning of the English Civil War
3.3.8 Oliver Cromwell and the English republic
3.3.9 The Restoration
Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
3.3.10 A Catholic king
3.3.11 The Glorious Revolution
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3.4.1 Constitutional monarchy — the Bill of Rights
3.4.2 A growing population
3.4.3 The Act or Treaty of Union in Scotland
3.4.4 The Prime Minister
3.4.5 The rebellion of the clans
Robert Burns (1759–96)
3.4.6 The Enlightenment
3.4.7 The Industrial Revolution
Richard Arkwright (1732–92)
Sake Dean Mahomet (1759–1851)
3.4.8 The slave trade
3.4.9 The American War of Independence
3.4.10 War with France
3.4.11 The Union Flag
3.4.12 The Victorian Age
3.4.13 The British Empire
3.4.14 Trade and industry
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–59)
3.4.15 The Crimean War
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
3.4.16 Ireland in the 19th century
3.4.17 The right to vote
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928)
3.4.18 The future of the Empire
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
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3.5.1 The First World War
3.5.2 The partition of Ireland
3.5.3 The inter-war period
3.5.4 The Second World War
Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
Alexander Fleming (1881–1955)
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3.6.1 The welfare state
Clement Attlee (1883–1967)
William Beveridge (1879–1963)
R A Butler (1902–82)
Dylan Thomas (1914–53)
3.6.2 Migration in post-war Britain
3.6.3 Social change in the 1960s
3.6.4 Some great British inventions of the 20th century
3.6.5 Problems in the economy in the 1970s
Mary Peters (1939–)
3.6.6 Europe and the Common Market
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013)
Roald Dahl (1916–90)
3.6.8 Labour government from 1997 to 2010
3.6.9 Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq
3.6.10 Coalition government 2010 onwards
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The establishment of the welfare state How life in Britain changed in the 1960s and 1970s British inventions of the 20th century (you do not need to remember dates of births and deaths) Events since 1979

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