7th Edition

A History of England, Volume 1 Prehistory to 1714

388 Pages 112 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

388 Pages 112 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

388 Pages 112 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past from its first inhabitants to the 2020s. A History of England, Volume 1: Prehistory to 1714 focuses on the key social, economic, cultural, environmental,... Read more

1. The Land and the People

2. Roman Britain: 55 B.C.E.–450 C.E.

3. Anglo-Saxon England: 450–1066

4. Norman England

5. The Angevins

6. The Thirteenth Century: 1216–1307

7. War and Crisis: 1307–1399

8. Lancaster and York: 1399–1485

9. The Reign of Henry VII: 1485–1509

10. War and Reformation: 1509–1547

11. Protestant and Catholic: 1547–1558

12. Elizabethan England: 1558–1603

13. Early Stuart England: 1603–1640

14. The English Revolution: 1640–1660

15. Restoration and Revolution: 1660–1689

16. War and Society

Biography

Douglas Bisson is Professor of History at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of The Merchant Adventurers of England: The Company and the Crown, 1474–1564.

Clayton Roberts was Professor Emeritus of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of The Growth of Responsible Government in Stuart England and Schemes and Undertakings: A
Study of English Politics in the Seventeenth Century
.

David Roberts was Charles and Elfriede Collis Professor of History at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Paternalism in Early Victorian England and The Social Conscience of the Early Victorians.