Periods of History

 

 

There are many ways of setting out the history of a place, but perhaps the most meaningful is using the dynasties which ruled England over the centuries. Thus we consider the following periods:-

 

Pre-conquest - earliest days, the Romans and the Saxons bring us up to 1066

 

Norman - from the Conquest to the Civil wars between Stephen and Matilda (1066 -1154)

 

Plantagenet - From Henry II to the Battle of Bosworth (1154 - 1485)

 

Tudor - from Bosworth to the death of Queen Elizabeth (1485 - 1603)

 

Stuart - from James I to Queen Anne (1603-1714)

 

Georgian - The time of the first three Georges and King William (1714-1830)

 

Victorian - (1830 to 1901)

 

Modern - from Edward VII to the end of the 2nd millennium (1901-1999)

 

The Second World War (1938-1946)

 

 

N1200 18/2/2010