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Following the formation of Great Britain, the history of England is no longer the history of a sovereign nation, but rather the history of one of the countries of the United Kingdom.
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The history of England is the study of the human past in one...
- History of England (Disambiguation)
The history of the United Kingdom begins in 1707 with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland , [ 1 ] into a new unitary state called Great Britain .
History of England. The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from the early tenth century, when it was unified from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would later become the United Kingdom.
Explore all of British history, from the Neolithic to the present day, with this easy-to-use interactive timeline. Go to the British History Timeline Norman Britain (1066 - 1154)
Learn about England's archaeology, historic buildings and social history. The Historic England Archive holds over 12 million photographs, drawings, reports and publications from the 1850s to the present day, with over 1 million records searchable online.
Learn about the history of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the reign of Elizabeth I, and U.K. entry in WW I and WW II. Written and fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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History of the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state. England, Scotland, Wales (together: Great Britain) and Northern Ireland are parts of this state. The Acts of Union in 1707 united the crowns and Parliaments of England and Scotland to create (the United Kingdom of) Great Britain.
