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1016 The Danish Conquest of England

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1066 William and the Normans arrive

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John, E., ‘The Return of the Vikings’ and ‘The End of Anglo-Saxon England’, in James Campbell (ed.), The Anglo-Saxons (Penguin, 1991).

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1141 Stephen and Matilda fight a civil war

Chibnall, Marjorie, The Empress Matilda (Blackwell, 1991).

Crouch, David, The Reign of King Stephen (Longman, 2000).

King, Edmund (ed.), William of Malmesbury, ‘Historia Novella’: The Contemporary History (Oxford Medieval Texts, 1998).

1171 Henry II invades Ireland

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Duggan, Anne, Thomas Becket (Hodder Arnold, 2004).

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Gillingham, John, The English in the Twelfth Century (Boydell, 2003).

1215 Magna Carta is forced on John

Carpenter, David, The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain, 1066–1284 (Penguin Paperback, 2004).

Holt, J.C., Magna Carta (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Holt, J.C., The Northerners. A Study in the Reign of King John (Oxford University Press, 1961).

Warren, W.L., King John (Yale University Press, 1997).

1295 Edward I goes on the warpath

Morris, Marc, A Great and Terrible King. Edward I and the Forging of Britain (Hutchinson, 2008).

Prestwich, Michael, Edward I (Yale University Press, 1997).

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1348 The Black Death hits Britain

Horrox, Rosemary (ed.), The Black Death (Manchester University Press, 1994).

Ormrod, Mark, and Phillip Lindley (eds), The Black Death in England (Paul Watkins, 1996).

Prestwich, Michael, Plantagenet England, 1225–1360 (Oxford University Press, 2005).

1381 Peasants rise in revolt

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1415 Henry V takes the field at Agincourt

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Curry, Anne, Agincourt (Tempus, 2005).

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1483 Richard III snatches the crown

Carpenter, Christine, The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution in England c. 1437–1509 (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

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1534 Henry VIII tries to take control of Britain

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1588 The Armada is repelled

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Martin, Colin, and Geoffrey Parker, The Spanish Armada (revised edition, Penguin, 1999).

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1638 Scots revolt against Charles I

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Macinnes, Allan, The British Revolution, 1629–1660 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

Russell, Conrad, The Fall of the British Monarchies, 1637–1642 (Clarendon Press, 1991).

1662 Charles II pays a heavy price for his Restoration

Harris, Tim, Restoration: Charles II and his Kingdoms (Penguin, 2004).

Hutton, Ronald, The Restoration: A Political and Religious History of England and Wales 1658–1667 (Oxford University Press, 1985).

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1745 The Jacobites rebel

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McLynn, Frank, Charles Edward Stuart. A Tragedy in Many Acts (Routledge, 1988).

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1776 America declares independence from the motherland

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Langford, Paul, A Polite and Commercial People: England, 1727–1783 (Oxford University Press, 1989).

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1832 The Reform Bill is passed

Brock, Michael, The Great Reform Act (Hutchinson, 1973).

Evans, Eric, The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain (3rd edition, Longman, 2001).

Hall, Catherine, ‘The Rule of Difference: Gender, Class and Empire in the Making of the 1832 Reform Act’, in Ida Blom et al. (eds), Gendered Nations. Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century (Berg, 2000).

Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class (Penguin, 1968).

1851 The Great Exhibition transforms Britain

Auerbach, Jeffrey, The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display (Yale University Press, 1999).

Briggs, Asa, Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes 1851–67 (1954; Penguin, 1990).

Piggott, J.R., Palace of the People: The Crystal Palace at Sydenham, 1854–1936 (Hurst & Co., 2004).

1916 The Somme, and Lloyd George founds his coalition

Addison, Paul, The Road to 1945 (Pimlico, 1994).

DeGroot, Gerard, Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War (Longman, 1996).

Hennessy, Peter, Never Again (Penguin, 2006).

Pugh, Martin, The Making of Modern British Politics 1867–1945 (Blackwell, 2002).

1956 Suez signals the dying days of empire

Butler, David, and Gareth Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts, 1900–2000 (Macmillan, 2000).

Clarke, Peter, Land of Hope and Glory. Britain, 1900–1990, (Penguin, 1996).

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