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History of the British Isles

The history of the British Isles began with its sporadic human habitation during the Palaeolithic from around 900,000 years ago. The British Isles has been continually occupied since the early Holocene, the current geological epoch, which started around 11,700 years ago. Mesolithic hunter-gatherers migrated from the Continent soon afterwards at a time when there was no sea barrier between Britain and Europe, but there was between Britain and Ireland. There were almost complete population replacements by migrations from the Continent at the start of the Neolithic around 4,100 BC and the Bronze Age around 2,500 BC. Later migrations contributed to the political and cultural fabric of the islands and the transition from tribal societies to feudal ones at different times in different regions.

England and Scotland were sovereign kingdoms until 1603, and then legally separate under one monarch until 1707, when they united as one kingdom. Wales and Ireland were composed of several independent kingdoms with shifting boundaries until the medieval period.


The British monarch was head of state of all of the countries of the British Isles from the Union of the Crowns in 1603 until the enactment of the Republic of Ireland Act in 1949.

Prehistoric Britain

Prehistoric Scotland

(44–407)

Roman Britain

(407–597)

Sub-Roman Britain

Britain in the Middle Ages

Anglo-Saxon England

Early modern Britain

Tudor period

History of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

History of England

History of Cornwall

History of Scotland

History of Wales

History of Ireland

History of Northern Ireland

History of the Isle of Man

History of Jersey

Timeline of the British Army

Timeline of British diplomatic history

British military history

List of British monarchs

British monarchs' family tree

Economic history of the United Kingdom

History of British society

Outline of the History of the British Isles

Woodward, E. L. (1938). .

The Age of Reform, 1815–1870

Schama, Simon

The British Isles: A History of Four Nations by Hugh Kearney, Cambridge University Press 2nd edition 2006,  978-0-521-84600-4

ISBN

The Isles, A History by , Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-513442-7

Norman Davies

Shortened History of England by Penguin Books ISBN 0-14-023323-7

G. M. Trevelyan

: 55BC-1901 by Christopher Lee Penguin Books ISBN 0-14-026133-8 (originally a radio series [1])

This Sceptred Isle

The Reduced History of Britain by

Chas Newkey-Burden

The Great Heritage: a History of Britain for Canadians by Richard S. Lambert, House of Grant, 1964 (and earlier editions and/or printings)

British History

World History Database

The most comprehensive sites on British History

Encyclopedia of British History

1000 years of British history

British History Online

Homepage of the BBC History website

British History Interactive Timeline

Rutgers University Libraries - American and British History

British History at about.com

English History and Heritage guide - History of England

with rss feed#

The British History Site

Mytimemachine.co.uk

The British History Podcast

The History Files

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