brief review about British history

1. HISTORY OF BRITISH
Group 8
Bui Thi Huyen Trang
Duong Thi Huyen Trang
Nguyen Duc Tuan
Nguyen Thi Tuoi
Do Tu Uyen

2. Table of Contents
Prehistory
01
The Roman period
(43-410)
02
The Germanic invasions
(410-1066)
03
The medieval period
(1066-1458)
04 05 06
16th century 17th century
07 08 09
18th century 19th century 20th century

3. 1. Prehistory
Iron Age Celtic culture
 Mysterious feeling of prehistoric times.
Silbury Hill Stonehenge
 Such places have a special importance
for some people with inclinations towards
mysticism and esoteric religion.

4. 2. The Roman period (43-410)
The Roman province of Britannia covered
most of present-day England and Wales
• Scots emigrated from Ireland
to Scotland.
• With the Piets, they became
opponents of the Romans.
• Two distinct branches of the
Celtic group of language.

5. 3. The Germanic invasions (410-1066)
 The Roman occupation had been a matter of
colonial control rather than large-scale settlement.
These Anglo-Saxons soon had the
south-east of the country in their grasp.
 Britain experienced another wave of
Germanic invasions in the eighth century.
These invaders were Vikings,
Norsemen or Danes, from Scandinavia.
 by the end of the tenth century, England was a united kingdom
with a Germanic culture throughout.

6. 4. The medieval period (1066-1458)
 The successful Norman invasion of England (1066) brought
Britain into the mainstream o f western European culture.
 In the 250 years after the Norman Conquest, it was a Germanic
language, Middle English, and not the Norman (French)
language, which had become the dominant one in all classes of
society in England.
 As a result, the (Celtic) Welsh language and culture remained
strong.
 Cultural divides have developed.
 Parliament began to gradually develop into the democratic body
it is today.

7. 5. The sixteenth century
The Tudor dynasty
(1485-1603)
King Henry VIII's desire
for a divorce.
Anglicanism
Calvinism

8. 6. The seventeenth century.
James VI & I
 Although their governments
continued to be separate, their
linguistic differences were
lessened in this century.
Charles I
 the first monarch in
Europe to be executed
after a formal trial for
crimes against his people.
William III & Mary II
 The ‘Glorious Revolution’

9. 7. The eighteenth century.
 In 1707, the Act of Union was passed.
 Whigs and Tories group is formed.
Whigs Tories
Celtic lives were effectively destroyed.
 In England, the growth of the
industrial mode of production,
together with advances in
agriculture, caused the greatest
upheaval in the pattern of
everyday life since the Germanic
invasions.

10. 8. The nineteenth century
 Famine in 1840.
 By the end of the 19th century,
almost the entire remaining
population had switched to English
as their native language.
 Much of Africa also belonged to
the empire, with the exception of
South Africa.
 Over the course of the century, Britain became
the leading economic power in the world.
 Victorian values.
 Writers and intellectuals of this period either
protested the horrors of this new type of life.
( Novelist Dickens was a critic of British society)

11. 9.The twentieth century.
 Britain ceased to be the world’s richest country.
 In 1920, extremism is gone.
 The British Empire reached its greatest extent in 1919. By this time,
however, it had become less of an empire and more of an alliance.
 Britain acquired new property under the Treaty of Versailles.
 Since the beginning of the twentieth
century, the urban working class (large
population) has finally begun to hear
its voice again.

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