1. Early Medieval Britain, C. 500–1000
Rory Naismith traces Britain from the end of Roman government to the eve of the eleventh century, when new kingdoms, institutions and identities were taking shape across the islands. England emerged through the interaction of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and Viking conquest, while political communities in Scotland and…
2. Medieval Britain, C. 1000–1500
David Crouch surveys Britain from the Viking and Norman conquests to the eve of the Reformation, treating England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland as parts of an interconnected medieval world. England became the strongest kingdom in the islands, but its expansion repeatedly met independent political traditions and…
3. Early Modern Britain, 1450–1750
John Miller examines Britain and Ireland across the three centuries in which medieval political structures gave way to a more closely connected but repeatedly contested group of kingdoms. Beginning with the Wars of the Roses, the book follows the Tudor monarchies, the Reformation, the union of…
4. Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present
James Vernon presents modern British history from the mid-eighteenth century to the twenty-first century as a story shaped by the interaction of domestic change and a wider world. Industrialisation, market society, political reform and imperial expansion transformed Britain, while wars, migration, decolonisation and global economic change…