INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH HISTORY
Whether you are studying British history over two or three years, you will need to follow the readings in the same order. This list shows how the two books, Our (An) Island Story and Our Lady's Dowry (work in progress) fit together.
Chapters of Our Lady's Dowry marked with an asterisk are available through the Teacher Training Forum. Those in italics are provisional titles for chapters not yet written.
| Island Story |
Ch.1 to 5 |
Stories of Albion
and
Brutus to The Warrior Queen |
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| Our Lady's Dowry |
Ch.1 |
* The Glastonbury Thorn: St Joseph of Arimathea | ||
| Island Story |
Ch.6 |
Last of the Romans |
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| Island Story |
Ch.7 |
St Alban (optional, as overlaps with ...) |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.2 |
* The First Martyr: St Alban |
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| Island Story |
Ch.8 to 13 |
Vortigern to King
Arthur |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.3 | * From Britain to Ireland: St Patrick |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.4 |
St Columba (until available use Saint Columba from Our Island Saints by Amy Steedman) |
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| Island Story |
Ch.14 |
Gregory and the
Pretty Children (optional, as overlaps with ...) |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.5 |
St Augustine
(until available use Our Island Story) |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.6 |
St.Aidan |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.7 |
* Brother Bishops: St Cedd and St Chad |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.8 |
* The Abbess and the Cowherd: St Hilda and
Caedmon |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.9 |
Masterpieces of the North: Art, Poetry and
Literature (until available use Saint Cuthbert from Our Island Saints by Amy Steedman) |
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| Island Story |
Ch.15
to 17 |
King Alfred |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.10 |
* The New Monks: St.Dunstan |
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| Island Story |
Ch.18 to 21 |
Aethelred to Edward
the Confessor |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.11 |
St.Edward the Confessor (until available use Saint Edward the Confessor from Our Island Saints by Amy Steedman) |
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| Island Story |
Ch.22 to 28 |
Harold to Henry I |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.12 |
* England's Nazareth: Our Lady of Walsingham |
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| Our Lady's Dowry |
Ch.13 |
* Bishops from Bec: The Church and the Norman Kings | ||
| Island Story |
Ch.29 to 31 |
King Stephen to
Thomas Becket |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.14 |
* Murder at Canterbury: St.Thomas Becket |
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| Island Story |
Ch.32 to 34 |
Conquest of Ireland
to Richard Coeur de Lion |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.15 |
* From England to Jerusalem: The Crusades |
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| Island Story |
Ch.35 to 36 |
John Lackland |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.16 |
* The White Monks: St.Gilbert Harding and St.Aelred of Rievaulx |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.17 |
* Quarrel with the Pope: The Church and King John |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.18 |
* The Coming of the Friars: Franciscans, Dominicans and St.Simon Stock | ||
| Island Story | Ch.37 to 39 | Henry III | ||
| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.19 | * Prayers in Stone: Medieval Cathedrals | ||
| Island Story | Ch.40 to 50 | Edward I to Richard II | ||
| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.20 | * Mystics and Pilgrims: Dame Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe | ||
| Island Story | Ch.51 to 64 | * Henry IV to Henry VIII Note: You may wish to omit Chapters 63 and 64 with deal with the Reformation |
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| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.21 | * England Adrift: Henry VIII and the Break With Rome | ||
| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.22 | * Bare Ruin'd Choirs: The End of Monasticism | ||
| Island Story | Ch.65 to 68 | Edward VI and Mary | ||
| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.22 | * A Protestant Brother and a Catholic Sister: Edward VI and Mary | ||
| Island Story | Ch.69 to 71 | Elizabeth I | ||
| Our Lady's Dowry | Ch.23 | * Penal Times Begin: Catholics Under Elizabeth I | ||
| Island Story | Ch.72 to 73 | Elizabeth I |
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