From the Book - First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
The conquest: loss and gain
The father of English poverty
Return to order: Edward IV
Violent interlude: Richard III
Return to order: The Tudors
Reformation and revolution
The unexpected revolution
The birth of a great power
From magic to science: Issac Newton
Paradise regained: 'capability' Brown
Disintegration and defeat
World War and the Invention of Britain
The new man: William Wilberforce
Revolution averted: the great reform bill
Country into town: The Industrial revolution
Information and intervention
The final decades of aristocratic rule
Victorian Britain: the classless society
Charles Darwin and the origin of species
Coming to terms with democracy
Splendid isolation and war
Consensus and the mismanagement of decline
Postscript: Brexit and beyond.