The History of Britain and Ireland

Prehistory to Today

Kenneth L. Campbell

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781350260740
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350260771
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

The History of Britain and Ireland: Prehistory to Today is a balanced and integrated political, social, cultural, and religious history of the British Isles. Kenneth Campbell explores the constantly evolving dialogue and relationship between the past and the present.

Written in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall demonstrations, The History of Britain and Ireland examines the history of Britain and Ireland at a time when it asks difficult questions of its past and looks to the future. Campbell places Black history at the forefront of his analysis and offers a voice to marginalised communities, to craft a complete and comprehensive history of Britain and Ireland from Prehistory to Today. This book is unique in that it integrates the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, to provide a balanced view of British history.

Building on the successful foundations laid by the first edition, the book has been updated to include:
· COVID-19 and earlier diseases in history
· LGBT History
· A fresh appraisal of Winston Churchill
· Brexit and the subsequent negotiations
· 45 illustrations

Richly illustrated and focusing on the major turning points in British history, this book helps students engage with British history and think critically about the topic.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Dedication
• Title
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Prologue to History: The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland
• 2 Roman Britain: From Bath to the Antonine Wall
• 3 Anglo-Saxon England and the Celtic Lands in the Early Middle Ages
• 4 Conquest, Colonization, and Culture: The High Middle Ages
• 5 Plague, Politics, and Power: The Later Middle Ages from the Black Death to the Wars of the Roses
• 6 Religion, Warfare, and Dynastic Politics: The Tudors and the Stewarts in the Sixteenth Century
• 7 From Stewart to Stuart: Political Culture, the Monarchy, and the Three Kingdoms, 1603–42
• 8 Civil Wars, Interregnum, and Restoration: From Edgehill to the Battle of the Boyne
• 9 The Struggle for Stability: Britain and Ireland in the Aftermath of the Revolutions of the Seventeenth Century, 1690–1746
• 10 Reform, War, and Rebellion: Political Culture in Britain and Ireland, 1746–89
• 11 The French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and their Aftermath, 1789–1832
• 12 Britain, Ireland, and India, c. 1830–50: Railroads, Reform, and the Response to Change, Cholera, and Catastrophe
• 13 The Later Victorian Era: Britain, Ireland, and Empire, c. 1860–90
• 14 In the Shadow of the Great War, c. 1890–1918
• 15 The Interwar Years
• 16 The Second World War
• 17 The Postwar Period, 1945–73: Social Change and the End of Empire
• 18 Demands, Disappointments, Hopes, and Promises, c. 1973–2000
• 19 Britain and Ireland in the Twenty-First Century
• Index
• Notes
• Copyright