Misplaced Pages

History of the British Isles: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 15:51, 11 April 2007 editRannpháirtí anaithnid (old) (talk | contribs)6,688 edits large rewrite of intro - replace pix of borders of roman britain with one of influence to all parts of BI← Previous edit Revision as of 15:52, 11 April 2007 edit undoRannpháirtí anaithnid (old) (talk | contribs)6,688 edits →Geographic: rm pix that is not relevent to all on BINext edit →
Line 29: Line 29:


==Geographic== ==Geographic==
] peoples and the Celtic ]s around the year 600.]]
*] *]
**] **]

Revision as of 15:52, 11 April 2007

Bayeux Tapestry depicting events leading to Norman conquest of England, a moment that defined much of the history of the British Isles since.

The History of the British Isles has been one of struggle and competition between peoples that occupy the various parts of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and the smaller adjacent islands, but one coloured by external forces and the influence that these people upon the world themselves. Today, the British Isles contains two sovereign states, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and three dependencies, Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man. Within the United Kingdom there are two further kingdoms, England and Scotland, a principality, Wales, and a province, Northern Ireland. The British monarch as head of state of all the people of the islands. since the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the 1949 Republic of Ireland Act. Partly because of this, many contemporary historians avoid the term British Isles due to the complexity of relations between the peoples of the archipelago .

Periods

Geographic

States

Rulers

Topical

Institutions and buildings

See also


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
  • A History of Britain, Volume 2: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 by Simon Schama, BBC/Miramax, 2001 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6
  • A History of Britain - The Complete Collection on DVD by Simon Schama, BBC 2002
  • The Isles, A History by Norman Davies, Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-513442-7
  • Shortened History of England by G. M. Trevelyan Penguin Books ISBN 0-14-023323-7
  • This Sceptred Isle: 55BC-1901 by Christopher Lee Penguin Books ISBN 0-14-026133-8 (originally a radio series )
  • The Reduced History of Britain - by Chas Newkey-Burden

External links

British Isles
Politics
Sovereign states
Crown Dependencies
Political cooperation
Geography
Island groups
Lists of islands of
History
(outline)
Island groups
Current states
Former states
Society
Modern languages
Germanic
Celtic
Romance
Other
People
Categories: