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VOLUME ONE: 55BC – 1485
The Romans to The Wars of the Roses


VOLUME TWO: 1485 – 1603
The Tudors


VOLUME THREE: 1603 – 1649
The Early Stuarts and Civil War


VOLUME FOUR: 1649 – 1660
Cromwell and the Commonwealth

VOLUME FIVE: 1660 – 1685
Charles the Second and the Restoration

VOLUME SIX: 1685 – 1688
James the Second, the Forgotten King


VOLUME SEVEN: 1688 – 1714
Glorious Revolution, the Last of the Stuarts


VOLUME EIGHT: 1714 – 1760
The Early Hanoverians


VOLUME NINE: 1760 – 1789
George the Third and the Loss of America




VOLUME TEN: 1789 – 1837
The Last of the Hanoverians


VOLUME ELEVEN: 1837 – 1859
The Early Victorians


VOLUME TWELEVE: 1858 – 1901
The Later Victorians




VOLUME THIRTEEN: 1901 – 1922
The Edwardians and the Great War




VOLUME FOURTEEN: 1901 – 1922
The Edwardians and the Great War



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