The Birth of Britain
by Winston S. Churchill Author
(From Amazon): The Birth of Britain is the first volume of A History of the English Speaking Peoples, the immensely popular and eminently readable four-volume work by Winston Churchill. A rousing account of the early history of Britain, the work describes the great men and women of the past and their impact on the development of the legal and political institutions of the English. Indeed, Churchill celebrates the creation of the constitutional monarchy and parliamentary system and the kings, queens, and leading nobles who helped create English democracy.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0-7607-6857-9
- Print Status
- Out of Print
- Chapters
- 30
- Pages
- 496
- Suggested Grades
- 7th - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- Great Britain
- Historical Setting
- 55 BC - 1485 AD
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble
- Edition
- Vol. 1, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
- Copyright
- 2005
- Written
- 1956
Chapters
- 1 Britannia
- 2 Subjugation
- 3 The Roman Province
- 4 The Lost Island
- 5 England
- 6 The Vikings
- 7 Alfred the Great
- 8 The Saxon Dusk
- 9 The Norman Invasion
- 10 William the Conqueror
- 11 Growth and Turmoil
- 12 Henry Plantagenet
- 13 The English Common Law
- 14 Coeur de Lion
- 15 Magna Carta
- 16 On the Anvil
- 17 The Mother of Parliaments
- 18 King Edward I
- 19 Bannockburn
- 20 Scotland and Ireland
- 21 The Long-Bow
- 22 The Black Death
- 23 King Richard II and the Social Revolt
- 24 The Usurpation of Henry Bolingbroke
- 25 The Empire of Henry V
- 26 Joan of Arc
- 27 York and Lancaster
- 28 The Wars of the Roses
- 29 The Adventures of Edward IV
- 30 Richard III
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