Unit 1 The Birth of a Nation/ 1
Text A The Ancient Britons and Invasions/ 2
Text B Anglo-Saxon England/ 10
Text C King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table/ 12
Text D The Venerable Bede (673—735) / 14 Unit 2 The Normans/ 19
Text A The Norman Monarchs/ 20
Text B Feudalism after the Norman Conquest/ 26
Text C The Doomsday Book / 28 Unit 3 The Early Plantagenet/ 32
Text A The Rule ofLaw/ 33
Text B The Canterbury Tales / 38
Text C The Crusades/ 41 Unit 4 The House of Plantagenet/ 47
Text A The Birth of Parliament/ 48
Text B The Magna Carta / 55
Text C King John/ 57 Unit 5 The14th-century England/ 61
Text A The Hundred Years’ War/ 62
Text B The Black Death and Wat Tyler Uprising/ 63
Text C Wat Tyler and His Revolting Peasants/ 67
Text D Joan of Arc—Maid of Orleans/ 68 Unit 6 The House of Lancasterand York/ 73
Text A The Wars of the Roses/ 74
Text B The Mystery of the Princes in the Tower/ 79
Text C The Middle Ages/ 81 Unit 7 The Tudor Age/ 84
Text A The Tudor Monarchy/ 85
Text B The Reformationin England (1517—1563) / 86
Text C King Henry VII/ 92
Text D Henry VIII and His Marriage/ 94 Unit 8 The Elizabethan Age/ 99
Text A The Reign of Elizabeth I/ 100
Text B Queen Elizabeth I/ 106
Text C Entertainment in Elizabethan Age/ 108
Text D Defeat of the Spanish Armada/ 111 Unit 9 The House of Stuart/ 115
Text A The Age of Revolution/ 116
Text B King James VIandI/ 123
Text C The English Civil War/ 125 Unit 10 The House of Hanover/ 130
Text A The Hanoverian Monarchs/ 131
Text B Napoleon Bonaparte (1769—1821) / 137
Text C King GeorgeI II/ 140 Unit 11 TheIndustrial Revolution/ 143
Text A The British Industrial Revolution/ 144
Text B Machines for the Industrial Revolution/ 149
Text C The Consequences of the Industrial Revolution/ 151 Unit 12 The Victorian Age (1837—1901) / 154
Text A Queen Victoria and Her Reign/ 155
Text B Everyday Life in Victorian England/ 161
Text C Charles Dickens (1812—1870) / 164 Unit 13 The World at War/ 169
Text A The Great Britain in the World Wars/ 170
Text B Causes of World WarI/ 176
Text C Winston Churchill/ 178 Unit 14 Towards the New Millennium/ 187
Text A House of Windsor/ 188
Text B Queen Elizabeth II/ 193
Text C Margaret Thatcher/ 195 Unit 15 Wales, Scotland and Ireland/ 201
Text A The English Conquest of Wales/ 202
Text B The Story of Scotland/ 203
Text C The Ties between Ireland and the Great Britain/ 209 Appendixes/ 213
Appendix 1: Kings and Queens of England and Britain/ 213
Appendix 2: Genealogy of the Monarchs of England/ 224
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