Gulf Stream warm ocean current reaches the British Isles
Stonnehenge
Stonehenge - original plan
Avebury - a fragment
Avebury - houses among the stones
Avebury
Avebury: aerial view
Avebury (Google Earth)
Avebury - original plan
Newgrange
Newgrange: the antrance, the roofbox and the entrance stone
Newgrange: the patterned entrance stone
Newgrange: plan
Newgrange: the entrance
inside Newgrange
Silbury Hill
Silbury Hill: aerial view
The Uffington White Horse
The white horses collection
Celtic homeland and later migration
Celtic cross
Celtic standing stone
A Druid (with a sickle)
A Druid in a grove
Celtic metalwork (weaponry)
A Celtic warrior
The Boudicca monument, London
The Maiden Castle, Dorset
A Celtic hut
A Celtic torc
Roman Empire 117 A.D.
A Roman soldier
One of Hadran's Wall's forts
Hadrian's Wall
A Pictish stone with engravings
A Pictish bench
Ancient Britannia a Roman map 1852
The Anglo-Saxon invasion
Anglo-Saxon warriors
The Septarchy
Beowulf
The Witan (Witenagemot)
Alfred the Great monument, Oxfordshire
The Danelaw
An Anglo-Saxon nobleman's brooch
An Anglo-Saxon peasant's brooch
Wodan
Thor
Drakkar
Lindisfarne
Odin riding his eight-legged stallion
A runic standing stone commemorating the collection of the Danelaw money, Sweden
Viking art
Viking comb
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey - interior
Harold Godwinson's coronation
Normans sailing to England
Anglo-Saxon king hit with an arrow
The Battle of Hastings
English army fleeing from the battlefield
The Normans (weaponry)
The major events of 1066
Norman tactics
The Domesday Book (1085)
Tower of London
Norman coat of arms
The death of William Rufus
Henry I, the Beauclerc
Henry II seeking Beckett's counsel
Thomas Beckett's assassination
Henry II's penance: pilgrimage to Canterbury (left) and being whipped by a monk (right)
Canterbury cathedral
The Richard I monument, Palace of Westminster
Richard the Lionheart, the crusader
An English crusader in Jerusalem
Magna Carta
King John signing the Great Charter
"May I have your signature, Sir?" (King John on horseback)
Robin Hood and his Merry Men entertaining Richard the Lionheart in Sherwood
Edward I, known as "Hammer of the Scots" and "Longshanks"
Edward I monument
William Wallace leading Scots against Edward I
Scottish weaponry
Coronation Chair, Westminster Abbey
Coronation chair with the Stone of Scone
The stone of Scone
Edward I monument tower
Wallace Tower, Stirling
Wallace / Braveheart monument
The Robert de Bruce Monument, Bannockburn
Cathedral, Canterbury.
Edward III
Edward III's coat of arms
Edward the Black Prince
An English archer using the longbow
Crecy, 1346
Poitiers, 1356
Danse Macabre
The Black Death devastating the mid-14th century Europe
The plague victims blessed by a priest
John Wycliffe. In the villages and towns the people listened eagerly to Wycliffe and his preachers reading passages from the Bible - in English
The Peasant's Revolt, 1381
Wat Tyler is being slain
John Wycliffe
the Wars of the Roses: major battles
the Lancaster red rose
the York white rose
the Tudor rose
Richard II
Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VI
Edward IV
Edward V
Richard III
Henry VII
Henry VII, Henry VIII and their wives
Henry VIII
Thomas Wolsey
The six wives of Henry VIII
Mary I (Bloody Mary)
Elizabeth I (Good Queen Bess)
Elizabeth I
The English fleet victorious in the battle against Spanish Armada
Spanish Armada on fire
James I of England / James VI of Scotland
5th November 1605, Houses of Parliament basements
Guy Fawkes
The Gunpowder Plot conspirators with their leader (Robert Catesby)
Bonfire Night / Guy Fawkes' Night
Charles I
Civil War in 17th-cent. England
Oliver Cromwell, 1st Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland 1653-8
