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    History of the British Isles

    The history of the British Isles began with its sporadic human habitation during the Palaeolithic from around 900,000 years ago. The British Isles has been continually occupied since the early Holocene, the current geological epoch, which started around 11,700 years ago. Mesolithic hunter-gatherers migrated from the Continent soon afterwards at a time when there was no sea barrier between Britain and Europe, but there was between Britain and Ireland. There were almost complete population replacements by migrations from the Continent at the start of the Neolithic around 4,100 BC and the Bronze Age around 2,500 BC. Later migrations contributed to the political and cultural fabric of the islands and the transition from tribal societies to feudal ones at different times in different regions. England and Scotland were sovereign kingdoms until 1603, and then legally separate under one monarch until 1707, when they united as one kingdom. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    British Isles (1565), by Ignazio Danti. The history of the British Isles began with its sporadic human habitation during the Palaeolithic from around 900,000 years ago. The British Isles has been continually occupied since the early Holocene, the current geological epoch, which started around 11,700 years ago. Mesolithic hunter-gatherers migrated from the Continent soon afterwards at a time ...
  3. history.ox.ac.uk

    This paper is a history of the British Isles in the twentieth century. The significance of the twentieth century lies in the speed and extent of political, economic and social change, and in the immense national and international pressures to which British society was subject. The twentieth century, for example, produced two world wars whose ...
  4. britannica.com

    Jan 2, 2025The term British Isles is a geographical designation referring to a group of islands off the northwestern coast of Europe. The group consists of two main islands, Great Britain and Ireland, and numerous smaller islands and island groups, including the Hebrides, the Shetland Islands, the Orkney Islands, the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Man.
    Author:The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    There have been several invasions of the British Isles by outside entities, some of which had a lasting impact on the history of the islands.. Roman conquest of Britain - Roman invasion of Britain starting in 43 AD and largely completed by 87 AD.; Norman conquest of England - 1066.; German occupation of the Channel Islands - Occupation of Jersey and Guernsey by German forces from 1940 to 1945.
  6. openculture.com

    Start­ing from the mid-12th cen­tu­ry, a cer­tain King­dom of Eng­land begins to paint the map red. By 1604, the British Isles are clean­ly divid­ed between the King­dom of Eng­land and the King­dom of Scot­land; by 1707, the King­dom of Great Britain is run­ning the whole place.
  7. link.springer.com

    Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK. He is an authority on early modern British and continental European history, with special interest in international relations, military history, the press, and historical atlases. A prolific historian, he is the author of over sixty books in addition to over a dozen edited ...
  8. en.wikipedia.org

    The British Isles are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands. [8] They have a total area of 315,159 km 2 (121,684 sq mi) [5] and a combined population of almost ...
  9. history.ox.ac.uk

    By the 1950s, the British political system was well-defined and well-entrenched, emerging from two world wars with its political institutions intact and increasingly democratic, at least with respect to those in the British Isles. For many of those living through these transformations, the possibilities for change and improvement seemed boundless.
  10. wikiwand.com

    Historically, there have been many conflicts between the people inhabiting the British Isles which led to a lasting impact on the history of the islands. Wars of Scottish Independence - A series of conflicts between Scotland and England from 1296 to 1357.
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