Nangonová S. British History and Culture

Ostrava: 2008. — 75 p.A brief survey of chief events and developments in the course of British history
From the earliest times to the end of the 15th century
The mingling of the races
The Iberians and the Celts
Roman Britain
The Anglo-Saxon period
From the Norman Conquest to the Hundred Years War: the feudal state
From the outbreak of the Hundred Years War to the end of the Wars of the Roses: the decay of feudalism
The Hundred Years War
The Black Death and the Peasants’ Revolt
The Wars of the Roses
From the tudor period to the end of the Napoleonic wars
The Tudor period
The Stuart era
The early Stuarts, the Civil War and the Republican period
From the restoration of the monarchy to the end of the Stuart era
The wars with France, the building of a colonial empire and the Industrial Revolution
Home and foreign policy
The Industrial Revolution
Developments in the 19th and 20th centuries
The 19th century
Home affairs
Foreign affairs and colonial expansion
Economy
The 20th century
Home affairs
Foreign affairs
Economy
MapsA brief survey of developments in British culture
Main architectural styles in britain and leading British architects
The Middle Ages
The late Tudor and Stuart periods
English Baroque and Classicism
Victorian historicism and the 20th century
A list of architectural terms used in this subchapter
Great painters and sculptors active in Britain
The 16th and 17th centuries
The 18th century
The 19th century
The 20th centuryExercises
A survey of british philosophical thinking and of developments in science and music
Chief British philosophers and philosophical systems
Eminent British scientists and inventors
A brief outline of the development of British musicExercises
Key to exercises