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)
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Anglo-Saxon England
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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History of Cornwall
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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
: 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
Mytimemachine.co.uk
The British History Podcast
The History Files