25 January Introduction: Course Structure and Prehistory

30 January Romans, Britons, and Picts

1 February The Anglo-Saxons and the Settlement

6 February The Britons/Welsh in Retreat

8 February Northern Invasions: Dalriada and Northumbria

13 February The Impact of Ireland as Centre of Celtic Christianity

15 February England as the Work of God: Bede’s England

20 February The Coming of the Heathen

22 February The Impact of the Norse

27 February The Last Conquest of England: The Normans

1 March The Angevin Empire

6 March Anglo-Norman Domination

8 March To Unite with France?

27 March Scotland and the Auld Alliance Created

29 March Early English Nationalism and the Defeat

3 April Anglicanism: Monarchy and Insularity

5 April Protestants Triumphant

10 April The Multiple Kingdoms and the Civil War

12 April King, People, Commonwealth

17 April Protestants, Parliaments, and Liberal Ideology

19 April Defining the Nation: The Question of Catholics

24 April The Debate over the Act of Union (1707)

26 April Jacobites and Hanoverians

1 May The Great Accommodation

3 May Patriotism, Victory and Empire