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The 'Insular Period' may refer to:

★ the period in which Insular art, Insular script and Early Insular Christianity occurred in the early medieval British Isles.

★ Certain periods during the Miocene period when New Zealand was a single island.
More generally, the term is often used of periods of relative political or cultural isolation or insularity in the histories of:

★ Japan, during most of the the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868), when the Seclusion laws were in place.

★ China, after 1422 until the 19th century.

★ the Philippines, under United States colonial government, from 1901 to 1935,

★ Berlin, when isolated by the Berlin Wall, from 1961 to 1989.

★ South Africa, under the international sanctions caused by Apartheid, from about 1962 to 1994.