James II defeats Monmouth at Sedgemoor but his Catholic policies and newborn heir bring England to the brink of revolution.
Charles II faces plague, fire, war, the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Crisis as Whig and Tory politics emerge.
Cromwell dissolves the Rump and rules as Lord Protector before the Republic collapses and Charles II returns.
England becomes a Commonwealth as Cromwell campaigns in Ireland and defeats the Scots at Dunbar and Worcester.
The Civil Wars culminate in Parliament’s New Model Army defeating Charles I, trying him for treason, and executing him in 1649.
Charles I rules without Parliament, provokes Scotland, faces the Long Parliament, and raises his standard as civil war begins.
James I unites the crowns, survives the Gunpowder Plot, sponsors the King James Bible, and clashes with Parliament over divine right and money.
Elizabeth's settlement of 1559, Mary Queen of Scots and Fotheringhay, the Armada, Tilbury, Drake and Shakespeare's London, and the end of the Tudors in 1603.
Mary I's Catholic restoration, the Oxford Martyrs - Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer - and the loss of Calais.
Edward VI and his regents, Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer, the Prayer Book Rebellion, and Lady Jane Grey's nine days.