Trace England’s development from Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon kingdoms through medieval monarchy, Tudor and Stuart upheavals, imperial and industrial power, world war, postwar reform, and contemporary Britain.
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Explain how conquest, royal authority, customary law, Magna Carta, Parliament, civil war, and constitutional settlement reshaped English and British government.
Analyze how Christian conversion, the break with Rome, Tudor settlements, Stuart divisions, and later religious movements affected political and social life.
Compare changing relationships among monarchs, ministers, nobles, Parliament, and political parties from the medieval kingdom to modern constitutional monarchy.
Evaluate how commerce, industrialization, urbanization, imperial expansion, nationalization, privatization, and decolonization altered Britain’s society and global position.
Place the world wars, welfare-state expansion, Thatcherism, European integration, Brexit, demographic change, and recent royal succession within longer historical patterns.
This course surveys English and British history from prehistoric and Roman Britain to the reign of Charles III. It follows Anglo-Saxon conversion, Viking settlement, political unification, the Norman Conquest, and the medieval development of royal justice, Magna Carta, Parliament, and dynastic conflict. The Tudor and Stuart lessons connect religious transformation and disputed succession with changing ideas of kingship, civil war, Restoration, and parliamentary ascendancy. The course then examines how constitutional monarchy, party government, commerce, industrialization, empire, and reform shaped Britain from the eighteenth century through the Victorian era. Its final lessons place two world wars, decolonization, the welfare state, economic crisis, Thatcherism, European integration, Brexit, demographic change, and the modern monarchy within Britain’s changing domestic and international position. Throughout, political institutions are considered alongside religious, economic, social, cultural, military, and imperial developments.
Professor of Humanities · Faulkner University
Jason Jewell is a professor of humanities whose teaching covers Western civilization, European history, the Great Books, and the relationship between faith and culture.
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