Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Chapter I. Words od Encouragement and Commiseration -- Chapter II. Matters of Geography, Demography and Terminology -- Chapter III. History Worth Remembering (to 1485) -- In the Beginning -- Stonehenge -- The Comings and Goings of the Romans (33 BC to 410 AD) -- The Anglo-Saxons and Ethnic Cleansing (410 to 1066) -- The Vikings and King Alfred -- Christianity -- Law and Order -- Duke William and the Norman Conquest (1066) -- Feudalism -- Chivalry -- Domesday Book (1066) -- Short-Circuiting the System -- The Common Law and the Jury System -- Upping the Fiscal Ante -- Magna Charter (1215) -- The Origin of Parliament -- The Three Edwards (1272-1377) -- Piety and Progress -- Sad Stories of the Death of Kings (1377-1485) -- Chapter IV. More Memorable History (1485 to 1964) -- Henry VII, The First of the Tudors (1485-1509) -- Henry VIII and the Reconstruction of England (1509-1547) -- The Little Tudors (1547-1558) -- Elizabeth I, The "Unlooked-for Miracle" (1558-1603) -- The Gentry -- Hot and Cold War (1567-1603) -- James I and VI or Mary Stuart's Revenge (1603-1625) -- The Planting of Colonies -- Charles I-A Better Martyr than Monarch (1625-1649) -- The Interregnum and the Search for Legality -- Charles II and the Restored Monarchy (1660-1685) -- The Glorious Revolution (1688-1691) -- Sir Isaac Newton and the "Happy Childhood of Science" -- War with France, The First Phase (1689-1713) -- London, "The Emporium of the World" -- Two Out of Four Georges (1715-1760) -- Britain Cut Down to Size: The American Revolution (1776-1781) -- Four Revolutions: Industrial, Agricultural, Demographic, and Spiritual -- Revolution French Style -- Still More War with France (1793-1815) -- Final Triumph and Peace Settlement (1815) -- The Aftermath of War (1815-1832).

The Flood Gates Are Opened (1832) -- The Angry Path to Political Democracy (1832-1913) -- Conservatives vs. Liberals: Disraeli vs. Gladstone -- Pax Britannia and the World's First Superpower -- Optimism, Classical Liberalism, and Victorian Morality -- The Economic Facts of Life (1875-1914) -- The New Imperialism -- The End of Splendid Isolation (1900-1914) -- Confidence Shaken (1900-1914) -- Total War, The First Go Around (1914-1918) -- A Weary Giant -- The Inter-War Years (1918-1939) -- One War Too Many: World War, The Final Phase (1939-1945) -- Utopia Limited (1945-1951) -- Finis Britanniae (1947-1964) -- Chapter V. Less and Less Memorable History (1964 to the Present) -- Hard Times -- Economic Suicide -- Thatcherism -- The Irish Question Again, or Who Cares About the UK? -- More Slings and Arrows -- "We Happy Few" -- Chapter VI. The Royal Soap Opera -- William I (1066-1087) -- William II (1087-1100) -- Henry I (1100-1135) -- Matilda and Stephen (1135-1154) -- Henry II (1154-1189) -- Richard I (1189-1199) -- John (1199-1216) -- Henry III (1216-1272) -- Edward I (1272-1307) -- Edward II (1307-1327) -- Edward III (1327-1377) -- Richard II (1377-1399) -- Henry IV (1399-1413) -- Henry V (1413-1422) -- Henry VI (1422-1461, 1470-1471) -- Edward IV (1461-1470, 1471-1483) -- Edward V (April 9-July 6, 1483) -- Richard III (1483-1485) -- Henry VII (1485-1509) -- Henry VIII (1509-1547) -- Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey and Mary I (1547-1558) -- Elizabeth I (1558-1603) -- James I (1603-1625) -- Charles I (1625-1649) -- Charles II (1660-1685) -- James II (1685-1688) -- The Last of the Stuarts: William III/Mary II (1689-1694) -- William (1694-1702) -- and Anne (1702-1714) -- The Four Georges: I (1714-1727), II (1727-1760), III (1760-1820), IV (1820-1830) -- William IV (1830-1837) -- Victoria (1837-1901) -- Edward VII (1901-1910) -- George V (1910-1936).

Edward VIII (1936) -- George VI (1936-1952) -- Elizabeth II (1952- ) -- Genealogical Charts -- The Tudor Claim to the Throne -- The Tudors: 1485-1603 -- The Habsburg Dynasty -- The House of Stuart -- A Brief Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index.