Constitutional history of the UK

Abstract

The Development of English Law and Government prior to the Norman Conquest -- The Norman Conquest and After, 1066-1189 -- Magna Carta and its Genesis 1189-1216 -- The Birth of Parliament : The Reign of Henry III 1216-72 -- The Reign of Edward I -- A King Dethroned : Edward II 1307-27 -- Edward III 1327-77 -- Sad Stories of the Death of Kings : Richard II -- The Fifteenth Century -- Government and Royal Justice in the Later Middle Ages -- The Early Tudors 1485-1547 -- The Children of Henry VII -- The Genesis of Civil War 1603-42 -- Civil War and Commonwealth 1642-60 -- Restoration and Revolution 1660-89 -- The Revolution Entrenched 1689-1707 -- The Early Eighteenth Century -- The Later Eighteenth Century -- The Reform Era -- An Increasing Role for Government -- The Later Nineteenth Century -- Queen Victoria and the Emergence of Constitutional Monarchy -- Two Constitutional Crises : 1906-14 -- Representation of the people since 1900 -- The Emergence of Modern Monarchy : The Twentieth Century -- Britain and Europe : The European Union -- Devolution -- The European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998