1. Prologue to history: the prehistory of the British Isles
2. Roman Britain: from Bath to the Antonine Wall
3. Anglo-Saxon England and the Celtic lands in the early Middle Ages
4. Conquest, colonization, and culture: the High Middle Ages from 1066 to 1348
5. Plague, politics, and power: the Later Middle Ages from the Black Death to the Wars of the Roses
6. Religion, warfare, and dynastic politics: the Tudors and the Stewarts in the sixteenth century
7. From Stewart to Stuart: the monarchy and the three kingdoms, 1603 -1642
8. Civil wars, Interregnum and Restoration: from Edgehilll to the Battle of the Boyne
9. The British Isles in the first half of the eighteenth century: form the Bill of Rights to the Battle of Culloden
10. Reform, war, and rebellion: political culture in Britain and Ireland, 1746-1789
11. The French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and their aftermath, 1789-1832
12. The Victorian period: politics, society, and culture in the nineteenth century
13. Britain's moment as a world power: the British Empire in the nineteenth century
14. In the shadow of the Great War, c. 1890-1918
17. The post-war period, 1945 to 1973: social change and the end of empire
18. Demands, disappointments, hopes, and promises: c. 1973-2004
Conclusion: history and the future of the British Isles in the twenty-first century
