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Tables of Contents for The Penguin Atlas of British & Irish History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
8
2
Consultant Editors & Contributors
10
2
PART ONE ANCIENT BRITAIN & IRELAND
Introduction
12
2
Britain's Earliest Humans
14
4
The Neolithic Age
18
4
The Ritual Landscape
22
4
The Bronze Age
26
4
The Iron Age
30
4
Hill-forts & Oppida
34
4
The Roman Conquest
38
4
Rome's Northern Frontier
42
2
Roman Economy & Society
44
2
Late Roman Britain
46
4
Roman London
50
2
PART TWO MEDIEVAL BRITAIN & IRELAND
Introduction
52
2
The Migration Period
54
4
Saxons & Celts
58
4
The Viking Age
62
4
Viking York
66
2
The Age of Unification
68
4
The Normans
72
4
The Medieval Church
76
4
The Angevin Empire
80
4
Britain & the Crusades
84
2
Castles
86
2
The Plantagenet Hegemony
88
4
Medieval Landscapes
92
4
The Hundred Years War
96
4
The Medieval Economy
100
4
The Black Death
104
2
The Late Middle Ages
106
4
Medieval Norwich
110
2
PART THREE EARLY MODERN BRITAIN & IRELAND
Introduction
112
2
The Age of the Reformation
114
4
Wales after the Union
118
2
The Anglo-Scottish Border
120
2
Parliament & Politics
122
4
Tudor London
126
2
Royal Palaces
128
2
The First Civil War
130
4
The British Republic
134
4
Restoration & Union
138
4
Colonial Expansion to 1707
142
4
18th-century Dublin
146
2
The Jacobite Rebellions
148
4
Languages 1500-1800
152
2
Agricultural Change
154
4
Country Estates
158
2
Enlightenment Edinburgh
160
2
The 18th-century Empire
162
4
Turnpikes & Canals
166
2
The Industrial Revolution
168
4
American Independence
172
2
PART FOUR 19th-CENTURY BRITAIN & IRELAND
Introduction
174
2
The Napoleonic Wars
176
4
The Age of Reform
180
4
Industrial Manchester
184
2
The 19th-century Empire
186
4
The Railway Age
190
2
Victorian Britain
192
4
Education & Literacy
196
2
Public Leisure: Sport
198
2
Seaside Resorts
200
2
Migration & Emigration
202
4
Irish Nationalism
206
4
The Labour/Co-op Movements
210
2
Working-class Housing
212
2
Britain's Overseas Trade
214
4
The South African War
218
2
PART FIVE MODERN BRITAIN & IRELAND
Introduction
220
2
The War in Europe 1914-18
222
4
Other War Theatres 1914-18
226
4
Women's Suffrage
230
2
Ireland's Independence
232
4
The Interwar Years
236
4
Metroland
240
2
The Home Front 1939-45
242
4
Overseas Theatres 1939-45
246
4
The Atlantic War 1939-45
250
4
20th-century Elections
254
2
Austerity & Affluence
256
4
The Aftermath of Empire
260
4
Language & Dialect
264
2
20th-century Transport
266
2
Society in the 1960s
268
2
The Troubles
270
2
Deindustrialisation
272
4
The British Isles Today
276
4
20th-century London
280
2
Britain, Ireland & the World
282
2
Chronological Table
284
20
Rulers of Britain & Ireland
304
4
Bibliography
308
6
Index
314
6
Picture Sources
320