British History
I have been an avid reader of British history since I was a child. Look and Learn, the Hamlyn/Collins publications and my father’s enthusiasm for the subject were driving factors. Even to this day I have ingrained in my mind the exact order of the English/British monarch from Edward the Confessor onwards (as well as the PMs since Disraeli).
Areas of Primary focus: The British Empire (especially in Africa), the Monarchial succession, the Anglo-Scottish Wars, Tudors and Stewarts and the English Civil War.
Areas of Secondary Focus: The Norman Conquest, Hundred Years War, Royal Navy, Winston Churchill and the Crimean War.
What I feel I need to know more about: The details of the Irish fight for Independence, War of the Roses and the David Lloyd George.
These are the Ten Period that I divide British/English history into:
1. The Celtic Era and Roman Britain
2. Saxon Domination
3. The Norman Conquest and the French Kings. Feudalism.
4. The Rise of the Tudors and the Decline of Catholicism.
5. Unification, the Stuarts and the English Civil War
6. Restoration and the Emergence of the House of Hanover.
7. The Early Empire and Parliament in the Age of the Enlightenment
8. Period of Splendid Isolation
9. Internationalism and WWI
10. WWII and the Decline of Modern Britain
