A History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts

Learn how England transformed itself from a medieval backwater into the first modern state in this sweeping course on one of the most interesting periods in history.

• By This Professor
• 01: England 1485-1714, the First Modern Country
• 02: The Land and Its People in 1485-I
• 03: The Land and Its People in 1485-II
• 04: The Land and Its People in 1485-III
• 05: Medieval Prelude-1377-1455
• 06: Medieval Prelude-1455-85
• 07: Establishing the Tudor Dynasty-1485-97
• 08: Establishing the Tudor Dynasty-1497-1509
• 09: Young King Hal-1509-27
• 10: The King's Great Matter-1527-30
• 11: The Break from Rome-1529-36
• 12: A Tudor Revolution-1536-47
• 13: The Last Years of Henry VIII-1540-47
• 14: Edward VI-1547-53
• 15: Mary I-1553-58
• 16: Young Elizabeth-1558
• 17: The Elizabethan Settlement-1558-68
• 18: Set in a Dangerous World-1568-88
• 19: Heart and Stomach of a Queen-1588-1603
• 20: The Land and Its People in 1603
• 21: Private Life-The Elite
• 22: Private Life-The Commoners
• 23: The Ties that Bound
• 24: Order and Disorder
• 25: Towns, Trade, and Colonization
• 26: London
• 27: The Elizabethan and Jacobean Age
• 28: Establishing the Stuart Dynasty-1603-25
• 29: The Ascendancy of Buckingham-1614-28
• 30: Religion and Local Control-1628-37
• 31: Crisis of the Three Kingdoms-1637-42
• 32: The Civil Wars-1642-49
• 33: The Search for a Settlement-1649-53
• 34: Cromwellian England-1653-60
• 35: The Restoration Settlement-1660-70
• 36: The Failure of the Restoration-1670-78
• 37: The Popish Plot and Exclusion-1678-85
• 38: A Catholic Restoration? 1685-88
• 39: The Glorious Revolution-1688-89
• 40: King William's War-1689-92
• 41: King William's War-1692-1702
• 42: Queen Anne and the Rage of Party-1702
• 43: Queen Anne's War-1702-10
• 44: Queen Anne's Peace-1710-14
• 45: Hanoverian Epilogue-1714-30
• 46: The Land and Its People in 1714-I
• 47: The Land and Its People in 1714-II
• 48: The Meaning of English History-1485-1714