A History of Britain

A History of Britain

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country

situated in the British Isles, which is a union make up of four countries:

England,

Scotland,

Wales

and

Northern

Ireland,

including

several

overseas territories. It?

s said that: to study the history of Britain is to learn

a

story

about

how

a

country

was

conquered

and

had

been

combined.

However,

I

would

like

to

divide

the

history

of

Britain

into

three

parts,

which not only about how the Britain was formed, but also what have had

great influence in the Britain along the historical river.

The

first

part

is

about

the

ancient

Britain.

The

origin

of

the

English

history is acknowledged known as the roman

invasion of 55BC. It was

under

the

charge

of

Julius

Caesar

when

the

first

roman

invasion

took

place, and in AD43, a well-planned and much larger invasion came again.

England

was

influenced

by

the

roman

so strongly

that

even

nowadays

you can feel that deeply in England. After nearly 400 years, the Roman

Empire

was

tired

to

manage

the

issue

of

England

because

of

the

difficulties closer to their country. But

the

local people

were

not strong

enough to protect themselves at that time and were conquered by anther

invasion from Northwestern Europe, including angles, Saxons and jutes.

It was this invasion established the language which now is known as Old

English. After hundreds years later, the king of Wessex, Alfred the great,

unified and stabilized the country with his successors.

The second part refers to the feudalism age. The feudalism which based

on the land had occurred under the Anglo-Saxon kings, for the purpose of

his power consolidation. Before Henry II, the king?s power was limited

by the barony and the Church. It was Henry II, who succeeds in reversing

the power back from the barony and the Church to the monarchical state.

In 1215, the nobility and the leading Church force their king John to sign

the Magna Carta to impose the legal limits on king?s personal powers in

raising money from his subjects. In this way, a royal council was formed

and plays an important role in the development of Britain.

The hundred years? war, spanned from 1337 to 1453, destroyed the feudal

nobility and brought about a new social order and brought the England?s

status as a power to an end which led the English to expand their power at

sea.

Two

years

later,

there

was

a

series

of

dynastic

civil

wars

for

the

English

throne

between

the

house

of

Lancaster

and

Y

ork.

In

1485,

the

Lancastrian

Henry

Tudor

defeat

the

king

Richard

II

and

founded

the

House

of

Tudor

which

enabling

the

England

to

assert

autonomy

and

independence

for

themselves

for

nearly

a

century,

bringing

England?s

turbulent medieval period to an end.

When it turns to the question: Who turned the England from a medieval

backwater

to

a

powerful

renaissance

state

in

the

coming

centuries

and

who establish a tradition of strong rule with a sense of law and justice?

The answer is Henry VII, whose son separating the English Church from