England is the largest and most populous of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom (the United Kingdom is a nation which was created by the bonding of the four predecessor states). The division dates from the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century. The territory of England has been politically united since the 10th century. This article concerns that geographic region. However, before the 10th century and after the accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England in 1603, it becomes less logical to distinguish Scottish and Welsh from English history since the union of these nations with England.
- history of england - England before the English - Britannia
- : Main site: Prehistoric Britain, Iron Age Britain and Roman Britain
- history of england - History of the conquest of Celtic Britain
- : Main article: History of Anglo-Saxon England
- history of england - England during the Middle Ages
- (Picture) Depiction of the Battle of Hastings (1066) on the Bayeux Tapestry
- history of england - Tudor England
- : Main article: Early Modern Britain
- history of england - The Stuarts and the Civil War
- Elizabeth died in 1603 without leaving any direct heirs. Her closest male Protestant relative was the King of Scots, James VI, of the House of Stuart, who following the Union of the Crowns became King James I of England. King James I & VI as he was styled became the first King of the entire island of Great Britain, though he continued to rule the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland separately. A number of assassination attempts were made on James, notably the Main Plot and Bye Plots of 1603, and most famously, on November 5, 1605, the Gunpowder Plot, by a group of Catholic conspirators, led by Guy Fawkes, which was stoked up and served as further fuel for antipathy in England towards the Catholic faith.
- history of england - Colonial England
- In 1607 England built an establishment in Virginia (Jamestown). This was the beginning of English colonisation. Many English settled then in North America for religious or economic reasons. The English merchants holding plantations in the warm southern parts of America then resorted rather quickly to the slavery of Native Americans and imported Africans in order to cultivate their plantations and sell raw material (particularly cotton and tobacco) in Europe. The English merchants involved in colonisation accrued fortunes equal to those of great aristocratic landowners in England, and their money, which fueled the rise of the middle class, permanently altered the balance of political power.
- history of england - The Industrial Revolution
- : Main article: Economic history of Britain
- history of england - Recent history
- : Main article: History of the United Kingdom
- history of england - References
- history of england - Further reading
- * A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 BC – 1603 AD by Simon Schama, BBC/Miramax, 2000 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6
- history of england - See also
- history of england - External links
- Full text of The History of England From the Norman Conquest to the Death of John
(1066–1216) from Project Gutenberg.
- Full text of The History of England From the Norman Conquest to the Death of John
- history of england - Related topics