Seán Lang, PhD is the author of the best-selling European History For Dummies. He is a senior university lecturer in history and has been teaching history to school, college, and university students for more than two decades.

• Introduction 1Part I: The British Are Coming! 9Chapter 1: So Much History, So Little Time 11Chapter 2: Sticks and Stone Age Stuff 23Chapter 3: Woad Rage and Chariots: The Iron Age in Britain 35Part II: Everyone Else Is Coming! The Invaders 49Chapter 4: Ruled Britannia 51Chapter 5: Saxon, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll 65Chapter 6: Have Axe, Will Travel: The Vikings 81Chapter 7: 1066 and All That Followed 97Part III: Who’s in Charge Around Here? The Middle Ages 113Chapter 8: England Gets an Empire 115Chapter 9: A Right Royal Time – the Medieval Realms of Britain 129Chapter 10: Plague, Pox, Poll Tax, and Ploughing – and Then You Die 147Part IV: Rights or Royals? The Tudors and Stuarts 161Chapter 11: Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown 163Chapter 12: A Burning Issue: The Reformation 181Chapter 13: Crown or Commons? 199Chapter 14: Old Problems, New Ideas 217Part V: On the Up: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 231Chapter 15: Let’s Make a Country 233Chapter 16: Survival of the Richest: The Industrial Revolution 253Chapter 17: Children of the Revolutions 267Chapter 18: Putting On My Top Hat – The Victorians 285Chapter 19: The Sun Never Sets – But It Don’t Shine Either 299Part VI: Don’t Look Down: The Twentieth Century 315Chapter 20: The Great War: The End of Innocence – and Everything Else? 317Chapter 21: Radio Times 329Chapter 22: TV Times 345Chapter 23: Interesting Times 359Part VII: The Part of Tens 377Chapter 24: Ten Top Turning Points 379Chapter 25: Ten Major Documents 383Chapter 26: Ten Things the British Have Given the World (Whether the World Wanted Them or Not) 387Chapter 27: Ten Great British Places to Visit 391Chapter 28: Ten Britons Who Should Be Better Known 395Index 401

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Seán Lang, PhD is the author of the best-selling European History For Dummies. He is a senior university lecturer in history and has been teaching history to school, college, and university students for more than two decades.

• Introduction 1Part I: The British Are Coming! 9Chapter 1: So Much History, So Little Time 11Chapter 2: Sticks and Stone Age Stuff 23Chapter 3: Woad Rage and Chariots: The Iron Age in Britain 35Part II: Everyone Else Is Coming! The Invaders 49Chapter 4: Ruled Britannia 51Chapter 5: Saxon, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll 65Chapter 6: Have Axe, Will Travel: The Vikings 81Chapter 7: 1066 and All That Followed 97Part III: Who’s in Charge Around Here? The Middle Ages 113Chapter 8: England Gets an Empire 115Chapter 9: A Right Royal Time – the Medieval Realms of Britain 129Chapter 10: Plague, Pox, Poll Tax, and Ploughing – and Then You Die 147Part IV: Rights or Royals? The Tudors and Stuarts 161Chapter 11: Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown 163Chapter 12: A Burning Issue: The Reformation 181Chapter 13: Crown or Commons? 199Chapter 14: Old Problems, New Ideas 217Part V: On the Up: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 231Chapter 15: Let’s Make a Country 233Chapter 16: Survival of the Richest: The Industrial Revolution 253Chapter 17: Children of the Revolutions 267Chapter 18: Putting On My Top Hat – The Victorians 285Chapter 19: The Sun Never Sets – But It Don’t Shine Either 299Part VI: Don’t Look Down: The Twentieth Century 315Chapter 20: The Great War: The End of Innocence – and Everything Else? 317Chapter 21: Radio Times 329Chapter 22: TV Times 345Chapter 23: Interesting Times 359Part VII: The Part of Tens 377Chapter 24: Ten Top Turning Points 379Chapter 25: Ten Major Documents 383Chapter 26: Ten Things the British Have Given the World (Whether the World Wanted Them or Not) 387Chapter 27: Ten Great British Places to Visit 391Chapter 28: Ten Britons Who Should Be Better Known 395Index 401

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Seán Lang, PhD is the author of the best-selling European History For Dummies. He is a senior university lecturer in history and has been teaching history to school, college, and university students for more than two decades.

• Introduction 1Part I: The British Are Coming! 9Chapter 1: So Much History, So Little Time 11Chapter 2: Sticks and Stone Age Stuff 23Chapter 3: Woad Rage and Chariots: The Iron Age in Britain 35Part II: Everyone Else Is Coming! The Invaders 49Chapter 4: Ruled Britannia 51Chapter 5: Saxon, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll 65Chapter 6: Have Axe, Will Travel: The Vikings 81Chapter 7: 1066 and All That Followed 97Part III: Who’s in Charge Around Here? The Middle Ages 113Chapter 8: England Gets an Empire 115Chapter 9: A Right Royal Time – the Medieval Realms of Britain 129Chapter 10: Plague, Pox, Poll Tax, and Ploughing – and Then You Die 147Part IV: Rights or Royals? The Tudors and Stuarts 161Chapter 11: Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown 163Chapter 12: A Burning Issue: The Reformation 181Chapter 13: Crown or Commons? 199Chapter 14: Old Problems, New Ideas 217Part V: On the Up: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 231Chapter 15: Let’s Make a Country 233Chapter 16: Survival of the Richest: The Industrial Revolution 253Chapter 17: Children of the Revolutions 267Chapter 18: Putting On My Top Hat – The Victorians 285Chapter 19: The Sun Never Sets – But It Don’t Shine Either 299Part VI: Don’t Look Down: The Twentieth Century 315Chapter 20: The Great War: The End of Innocence – and Everything Else? 317Chapter 21: Radio Times 329Chapter 22: TV Times 345Chapter 23: Interesting Times 359Part VII: The Part of Tens 377Chapter 24: Ten Top Turning Points 379Chapter 25: Ten Major Documents 383Chapter 26: Ten Things the British Have Given the World (Whether the World Wanted Them or Not) 387Chapter 27: Ten Great British Places to Visit 391Chapter 28: Ten Britons Who Should Be Better Known 395Index 401

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