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The 'history of the British Isles' has witnessed intermittent periods of competition and cooperation between the people that occupy the various parts of Great Britain, Ireland, and the smaller adjacent islands, which together make up the British Isles. The isles' history has also been coloured by external forces and the significant influence that these people have had upon the rest of the world.
Today, the British Isles contain two sovereign states: the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. There are also three Crown dependencies: Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man. The United Kingdom may be further broken down into four constituent Home Nations: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Each of these nations bears its own history, with all but Northern Ireland having been independent states at one point.
The British monarch was head of state of all of the British Isles from the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the enactment of the Republic of Ireland Act in 1949. Since then, many contemporary historians of the region as a whole avoid the term ''British Isles'' due to the complexity of relations between the peoples of the archipelago (see: ''British Isles (terminology)'').

Contents

Periods

Timeline history of the British Isles

Geographic

States

Rulers

Topical

Institutions and buildings

See also

Further reading

External links

Periods

★ Ancient Britain (Prehistory–AD 43)

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★ Prehistoric Scotland

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★ Prehistoric Wales

★ Roman Britain (44–407)

★ Sub-Roman Britain (407–597)

★ Anglo-Saxon England (597–1066)

★ Norman Conquest of England (1066)

★ Britain in the Middle Ages

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★ Scotland in the High Middle Ages

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★ Wars of Scottish Independence

★ Early modern Britain

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★ Tudor period

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★ Tudor re-conquest of Ireland

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★ English Renaissance

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★ Elizabethan era

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★ Jacobean era

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★ Restoration

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★ Scottish Enlightenment

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★ Georgian era

★ History of the United Kingdom

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★ Regency period

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★ Victorian era

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★ Edwardian period

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★ Britain in World War I

Timeline history of the British Isles

Geographic

★ History of England

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★ History of Cornwall

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★ History of London

★ History of Scotland

★ History of Wales

★ History of Ireland

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★ History of Northern Ireland

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★ History of the Republic of Ireland

★ History of the Isle of Man

★ History of Jersey

States

★ States in Medieval Britain

★ Kingdom of England (to 1707)

★ Kingdom of Scotland (to 1707)

★ Kingdom of Ireland (1541 – 1801)

★ Kingdom of Great Britain (1707 – 1801)

★ United Kingdom (1801 – present day)

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★ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801 – 1927)

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★ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1927 – )

★ British Empire and the Commonwealth

★ Isle of Man (unrecorded date to present)

Rulers

★ Mythical British Kings

★ Historical Kings claimed as Kings of the Britons

★ Bretwalda

★ List of rulers of Wales

★ Kings of the Picts

★ Kings of Dál Riata

★ Kings of Strathclyde

★ Kings of the Isle of Man and the Isles

★ Kings of the Isle of Man

★ Kings of East Anglia

★ Kings of Essex

★ Kings of Kent

★ Kings of Sussex

★ Kings of Wessex

★ Kings of Mercia

★ Kings of Northumbria

Topical

★ British military history

★ Economic history of Great Britain

★ History of British society

★ British Empire

★ Natural disasters in Britain and the United Kingdom

Institutions and buildings

★ Ancient British universities

★ Cathedrals in the United Kingdom

★ Government of the United Kingdom

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★ Scottish Executive

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★ Welsh Assembly Government

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★ Northern Ireland Executive (currently disbanded)

★ Government of Ireland

★ Government of the Isle of Man

See also

★ Geology of the United Kingdom - for history before human occupation

★ UK topics

★ British Ceylon

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 [1])

★ The Reduced History of Britain - by Chas Newkey-Burden [2]

External links

★ The most comprehensive sites on British History

★ Encyclopedia of British History

★ British History Online

★ Homepage of the BBC History website

★ Rutgers University Libraries - American and British History

★ British History at about.com

★ English History and Heritage guide - History of England

★ The British History Site with rss feed#

★ Mytimemachine.co.uk

★ The History Files [3]