After the success of my best selling English Literature course, students emailed me to ask where they could learn about English History so I put together this box set course for everybody fascinated with this intriguing topic. By the end of the course you will be conversant with English history.

If you need to know about English history for academic reasons or to pass a citizenship test or even because you love historical novels and period dramas, have a keen interest in English langiage and literature, or you just want to be better informed, this is the course for you.

After the course you will be fully conversant with the key facts, periods and themes of English history and you will also be able to find reliable resources to keep learning about English, British and world history.

The course is unique in that most history courses available focus on single periods or issues within English History but this course gives an in depth overview from Stonehenge to the Cold War. It’s like an English History box set with a lot of detail but not overwhelming.

As a medievalist trained at the prestigious Queen’s University of Belfast, history is in my background and it’s also my passion. I hope it will be yours, too.

We will learn about key aspects of English history such as:

· Stonehenge and British pre-history

· The Roman Occupation

· The Anglo- Saxon period

· The rule of the Plantagenets (including Magna Carta and the Wars of the Roses).

· The Tudors and how modern Britain started to emerge during the English Renaissance

· The Stuarts and the development of the UK’s parliamentary political system

· The Hanovers and Britain’s growing Empire

· The reign of Queen Victoria and the age of industrialisation and technology

· The First World War and how it changed life in Britain

· World War II and post-war Britain

· The Cold War

There are even some fun facts on the way. Do you know:

· Which king was so fat he exploded when they tried to put him in his grave?

· Which famous warrior king died because of a frying pan?

· Which respected Queen created a law that everybody had to wear woollen hats on Sunday?

· How did Tudor people treat household illnesses?

· How could you tell if someone was a witch?

By the end of the course you will be able to answer these questions plus you will have developed your knowledge of the history of politics, immigration and colonialism, freedom of religion, the monarchy and the economy of the United Kingdom.

I’m really looking forward to joining you. Please enrol today with no risk due to Udemy’s 30 day money back guarantee. See you on the course!