Life in the UK
Early Britain
to 1066The Middle Ages
1066 to 1485The Tudors and the Stuarts
1485 to 1714A global power
1714 to 1901The 20th century
1901 to 1945Britain since 1945
Britain today
where, not whenEverything with no date on it: the four countries, how the place is run, what it celebrates.
The four nations
How the country is run
Culture, customs and the calendar
Every stop, on its own page
The road above opens each stop in place. These are the same stops as pages, to link to or come back to.
The Tudors and the Stuarts, 1485 to 1714
- The break with Rome
- From Henry VII to Elizabeth
- Five of the Six Wives
- Mary, Elizabeth and the Reformation
- Elizabeth I
- Shakespeare and the Scottish Queen
- James VI and I
- The English Civil War
- Cromwell and the Republic
- The Republic Without a King
- The Restoration
- The Glorious Revolution
- The Bill of Rights
- Constitutional Monarchy and Parliament
A global power, 1714 to 1901
- Union with Scotland
- Scotland After the Union
- Bonnie Prince Charlie and Burns
- The Enlightenment
- The Industrial Revolution
- Arkwright, Bessemer and Trade
- The slave trade and its abolition
- Trafalgar and Waterloo
- The Union Flag and the union with Ireland
- Wellington and the Union Flag
- The Flag and the Colonies
- The Victorian Age
- The Great Exhibition and Nightingale
- Victoria and the Empire
- Brunel and British Industry
- Winning the right to vote
- Pankhurst and the Vote
- Chartists and Suffragettes
Britain since 1945
- The welfare state begins
- Building the Welfare State
- Attlee and the Giant Evils
- The 1960s
- Equal Pay, Architecture and Concorde
- British inventions and discoveries
- Turing, Lovell and the Web
- Concorde, cash machines and cloning
- Dolly, Crick and the MRI
- Mary Peters and the 1970s
- Europe and the Common Market
- Margaret Thatcher
- John Major and Roald Dahl
- Labour, 1997 to 2010
- Northern Ireland and Iraq
- Government since 2010
- Landmarks and national parks
- Sport in the UK
- The 1966 World Cup, and Olympic champions
- London 2012
- Andy Murray and the 2012 medals
- The monarch
- Parliament today
- The Human Rights Act
- Rights and duties
- Devolution
- What each devolved body can do
- The UK in the world
Everything on one pageEvery table in the course, open and in order, for revising.