3rd edition. Fully updated with a colour insert, this is an engaging, entertaining and educational guide to British history. Now includes the historic parliamentary elections of 2010 and the British mission in Afghanistan, and is accompanied by access to an informative timeline and a Who's Who section on dummies.com This book is a riotous, irreverent account of the people and events that have shaped Britain. Always getting those kings and queens confused? Never sure what happened when? Then you need this book. Introduction I The British Are Coming!1 So Much History, So Little Time2 Sticks and Stone Age Stuff3 Woad Rage and Chariots: The Iron Age in Britain II Everyone Else Is Coming! The Invaders4 Ruled Britannia5 Saxon, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll6 Have Axe, Will Travel: The Vikings7 1066 and All That Followed III Who's in Charge Around Here? The Middle Ages8 England Gets an Empire9 A Right Royal Time - the Medieval Realms of Britain10 Plague, Pox, Poll Tax, and Ploughing and Then You Die IV Rights or Royals? The Tudors and Stuarts11 Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown12 A Burning Issue: The Reformation13 Crown or Commons?14 Old Problems, New Ideas V On the Up: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries15 Let's Make a Country16 Survival of the Richest: The Industrial Revolution17 Children of the Revolutions18 Putting on My Top Hat - The Victorians19 The Sun Never Sets - But It Don't Shine Either VI Don't Look Down: The Twentieth Century20 The Great War: The End of Innocence - and Everything Else?21 Radio Times22 TV Times23 Interesting Times VII The Parts of Tens24 Ten Top Turning Points25 Ten Major Documents26 Ten Things the British Have Given the World (Whether the World Wanted Them or Not)27 Ten Great British Places to Visit28 Ten Britons Who Should Be Better Known Index