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Front Matter Introduction Britain and the Britons The Romans in Britain The Coming of the English The English Accept Christianity King Alfred and the Danes The Normans Conquer England The Rule of the Normans Henry II, First Plantagenet King Richard the Lion-Hearted King John and the Great Charter The Barons' Wars The First Two Edwards The Rise of Parliament The Hundred Years' War The Last Plantagenet King The Lancastrian Kings The War of the Roses The Beginning of Modern Times The Separation from Rome The Reformation Established England under Elizabeth James I, First Stuart King Charles I and Parliament The English Civil War The Commonwealth The Stuart Restoration The "Glorious Revolution" The Reign of William and Mary Queen Anne, Last of the Stuarts The First Hanoverian Kings Winning the British Empire George III. and America Industrial and Social Changes England and the French Revolution A Period of Reform Early Reign of Queen Victoria Gladstone and DIsraeli England and Ireland British Empire under Edward VII.

Story of England - S. B. Harding



This book, which can be used as a middle-school history of England, provides a thorough and succinct introduction to the history of the British Isles from the early Britons to the end of the Victorian era. Besides giving a chronological account of events, a brief explanation of some of the important industrial and social changes are discussed. The later chapters focus on the difficulties of administering an enormous empire spanning the entire globe.

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