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Following the formation of Great Britain, the history of England is no longer the history of a sovereign nation, but rather the history of one of the countries of the United Kingdom.
The origins of the United Kingdom can be traced to the time of the Anglo-Saxon king Athelstan, who in the early 10th century ce secured the allegiance of neighbouring Celtic kingdoms and became “the first to rule what previously many kings shared between them,” in the words of a contemporary chronicle.
A sixth-century Anglo-Saxon brooch, unearthed at Oakington. Look closely and you’ll see engraved human and animal heads. Duncan Sayer. But exactly how was the Roman Britain of 400 transfigured...
United Kingdom - Ancient History, Celts, Romans: Archaeologists working in Norfolk in the early 21st century discovered stone tools that suggest the presence of humans in Britain from about 800,000 to 1 million years ago.
Explore all of British history, from the Neolithic to the present day, with this easy-to-use interactive timeline.
The Kingdom of Great Britain came into being on 1 May 1707, as a result of the political union of the Kingdom of England (which included Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland under the Treaty of Union.
English Heritage - Story of England; Ancient Origins - The Kingdom of Wessex and the Birth of England
Discover thousands of years of England’s history, stretching from the arrival of the earliest known humans 900,000 years ago to the 63-year reign of Queen Victoria. Take a chronological journey through the key periods in England's past, and discover how the changes that the country has seen can be traced through English Heritage's sites.
The story of British history begins over a thousand years ago with a regional leader called Alfred, King of Wessex, one of the history of England’s most popular monarchs. After the Romans had left the island they called Britannia (which we now call Britain) in the early 5th century, a complex system of governance emerged.
The history of the British Isles began with its sporadic human habitation during the Palaeolithic from around 900,000 years ago. The British Isles has been continually occupied since the early Holocene, the current geological epoch, which started around 11,700 years ago.