The Historical Atlas of the British Isles

Ian Barnes

• Publisher: Pen & Sword
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781399013161
• eBook ISBN: 9781783408061
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: Social Sciences

A visual history of the many peoples who've inhabited and shaped Britain, from hunter-gatherers to Celts, Vikings, Normans, and modern immigrants.
 
This atlas covers the history of the British Isles from earliest times to the present day. The first hunter-gatherers, who crossed into what would become the United Kingdom by the land-bridge, and later followed by more familiar peoples the Celts, Angles, Saxons, Vikings, and Normans, who together would create Britain's unique history.
 
Each of these groups contributed ideas that shaped the lands, languages, and thoughts at the core of British identity. This story is illustrated with 150 full-color maps and plans that range across many topics, such as agricultural, political, and industrial revolutions. The expansion of the islands' peoples across the oceans left a lasting legacy on the world, and on Britain itself. The book shows the fluctuating fortunes of the states by which Britain currently identifies itself, from an Anglo-Scottish imperium to devolved power, independence, and the often-painful process by which the modern map evolved.
 
The forces of history and religion have often divided the islands' peoples, but DNA unites them much more than most would realize as they continue to embrace new cultures arriving in search of refuge, opportunity, and equality.

Index

Please note that page numbers in italic denote maps or plans.

A

Act of Indemnity, 1660 128

Act of Settlement, 1701 128

Act of Supremacy, 1559 106

Act of Uniformity, 1559 106

Act of Union, 1707 128, 128, 140

Act of Union, 1801 142

Admiral Graf Spee, ship 194

Advanced Air Striking Force 196

Æthelflæd, Queen of Mercia 52

Aedán mac Gabhrán, Dál Raida King 54

Aethelfrith of Bernicia 54

Agricola, General Gnaeus Julius 34, 42

Albermarle, Sir Bertie, Admiral 132

Aldermaston Marches 202

Alexander I, King 65, 66

Alexander III, King 83

American Revolution, 1775 136

American Revolutionary War, 1775–83 156

Amesbury Archer 8

Anabaptists 110

Andrew of Moray, leader 83

Angevin Empire 74, 75

Anglican Church 110,112

Angles of Berenicia 54

Angles of Deira, Kingdom 44

Anglesey, Isle of 28

Anglo-Irish Treaty 182

Anglo-Saxon/s 8, 42, 44, 46

Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms 47

Antonine Wall 34, 35, 35

Antoninun Pius, Emperor 35

Antrim 162

Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury 72

Archbishop Becket 74

Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury 72

Archbishop of York 72

Arkwright, Sir Richard 156

Armstrong, Johnnie, of Gilnockie, reiver leader 104

Arsaig 138

Athelney 48

Athelstan, King 52

Atrebates, tribe 20

Attwood, Thomas 160

Augustinian priories 72

Aulus Plautius 26

Australia 146, 158

Avebury henge, Wiltshire 14, 14

Axis Collapse 198/199

B

Babington Plot 106

Baby Boomers 202, 203

Bacon, Lord Chancellor 115

Badgers Hole, Somerset 11

Baedeker Raids 192

Bahadur Shah II, last Moghul Emperor 165

Baldwin, Stanley, Prime Minister 184

Ball, John, peasant leader 92

Ballacagan Round House 23

Bann Valley, Northern Ireland 11

Basilicon Doron 115

Battles of:

Aboukir Bay, 1799 151

Ancrum Moor, 1545 104

Ashdown, 871 48

Atlantic (the), 1939–45 195

Athankip, 1270 82

Bannockburn,1314 9

Blood River,1838 158

Boyne, the, 1690 130,130

Brémule, 1119 68

Britain, 1940 190, 190/191, 192

Brunanburh, 937 52

Bulge (the), 1944/45 199

Bunker Hill, 1775 136, 136

Camperdown, 1797 150

Cape St. Vincent, 1797 150

Castillon, 1453 96

Copenhagen, 1801 151, 152

Countisbury Hill, 878 48

Crecy, 1346 96

Culloden, 1746 138

Degsastan, 603 54

Down, 1260 76

Dunbar, 1650 122

Dunkeld, 1690 130

Dyrham, c. 577 57

Eddington, 878 48

Edgehill, 1642 120

Falkirk, 1298 83

Falkirk, 1746 138

Farsetmore, 1567 112

Formigny, 1450 96

Fulford Gate, 1066 58

Glentaise (Glenshesk), 1565 112

Glenmalur, 1580 112

Glen Trool, 1307 90

Glorious First of June, 1794 150

Hastings, 1066 60, 60

Haughs of Cromdale, 1690 130

Homildon Hill, 1402 92

Killikrankie, 1689 130

Largs, 1263 76

Lissa, 1811 151

Loudon Hill, 1307 90

Marne, 1914 174, 175

Marston Moor, 1644 120

Mellifort, 1603 115,

Messines, 1917 178, 178

Methven, 1307 90

Monasternenagh, 1579 112

Mons Graupius, AD 83 26, 34, 34

Mount Badon, c. 500 44, 57

Nazeby, 1645 120

Nechtanesmere, 685 54

Passchendaele, 1917 178

Philiphaugh, 1645 120

Plassey, 1757 132

Pinkie, 1547 104, 108

Poitiers, 1356 96

Preston, 1648 120, 138

Prestonpans, 1745 138

Quiberon Bay, 1759 132

Radcot Bridge, 1387 92

Sedgemoor, 1685 128

Sheriffmuir, 1715 138

Sluys, 1340 84, 96

Somme (the), 1916 175, 176

Stamford Bridge, 1066 58, 58

Standard (the), 1138 65

Sterling Bridge, 1296 83, 83

Stow-on-the-Wold, 1645 120

Tinchebrai, 1106 68

Trafalgar, 1805 151, 152

Vinegar Hill, 1798 142

Waterloo, 1815 154

Worcester, 1651 122

Yellow Ford, 1598 114

Yorktown, 1781 137

Battersea Shield 20

Bayeux Tapestry 63

Beaker People 18

Bealnablath, Co. Cork 182

Beaton, Cardinal 108

Beaumaris Castle 82

Bede, historian 42

Belgae, tribe 20, 23

Benedictine Abbeys 72

Bernicia, kingdom 44

Berkhamsted Castle 66

Berwick 100

‘Black and Tans’, Royal Irish Constabulary Auxilliary Force 182

Black Country 156

Black Death (Pasteurella pestis), 1348, 1361 86, 87, 100

Blair, Tony, Prime Minister 210

Blitz, the 192, 193

Bloody Assizes 128

‘Bloody Sunday’, 1920 182

Boer War, 1899–1902 172

Bomber Command 196, 197

Bonaparte, Napoleon 152, 154

Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles ...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Early Peoples
• Skara Brae, Orkney
• Stone Circles and Henges
• First Farmers
• Epoch of the Celts
• The Stamp of Rome
• Invasion AD 43-83
• Revolt of the Iceni
• Londinium Provincial Capital
• Roman Occupation and Rule
• Caledonia
• Britain’s Trade with the Empire
• Rome’s Retreat in the West
• An Imperfect Empire
• The Saxon Shore
• Invasions Briton c. AD 550
• Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms c. 500770
• Viking Raiders
• Viking Settlements
• The Making of England
• Scotland’s Peoples
• Ireland and Wales–6th–8th Century
• England in 1066
• Norman Invasion
• Normans in Ireland and Scotland
• Norman Domination of Country Life
• The Normans in Britain and Europe
• Castles and Estates
• Church and State
• The Angevin Empire 1150–1214
• Kingdoms and Princes
• Feudal State
• Holy Places and Pilgrimages
• Borderlands
• The Woolsack–England’s Wealth
• The Black Death
• The Reign of Edward I
• Usurper: Richard II and Bolingbroke
• The Hundred Years’ War
• The War of the Roses
• Revolts and Risings
• Economies and Populations 1200–1400
• Towns and Cities
• Border Lordships
• Elizabethan Rule
• Scottish Reformation
• Reformation in Europe 1520–1600
• Elizabethan Ireland
• English Emigration
• King or Parliament–Civil Wars
• Cromwell’s Republic
• The American Colonies
• The Great Fire and Reconstruction 1666
• ‘Glorious Revolution’ to the Act of Union
• Ireland and Scotland 1690–1715
• Global War
• Britons Abroad
• Colonies in Rebellion
• The Risings of 1715 and 1745
• The British Empire in 1707
• Radicalism and Rebellion–Ireland 1790s
• Industrial Revolution–Canals
• The British Empire in 1800
• Eastern Imperial Ambitions 1798–1815
• Naval Engagements 1793–1815
• Napoleonic Wars
• Trade and Industry
• The British Empire in 1850
• Reform
• Irish Famine and Emigration
• Britain’s Asian Empire
• The Railways 1829–1890
• Imperial Rivals 1899–1914
• Cities 1800–1900
• On the Eve of War
• World War I–Battlefronts 1914–16
• Irish Easter Rising 1916
• Battlefronts 1917–18
• Europe 1919–22
• Irish Separation 1918–23
• The 1926 General Strike and the Great Depression
• Re-armament 1936–37
• World War II
• The Battle of Britain
• Holding Out
• Bomber Command in World War II
• The End of the Axis
• Britain and Post-War Europe
• Baby Boomers and Population Movement
• The European Union
• Ulster Says No!
• Immigration and Diversity
• Devolution
• Kings and Queens
• Battles
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgements