History of the British Isles
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The history of the British Isles began with its sporadic human habitation during the Palaeolithic from around 900,000 years ago. The British Isles has been continually occupied since the early Holocen
British Isles (1565), by Ignazio Danti
Poulnabrone dolmen in Ireland
End of Roman rule in Britain, 383–410
Bayeux Tapestry depicting events leading to the Norman Conquest, which defined much of the subsequent history of the British Isles
Georgian era
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The Georgian era was a period in British history from 1714 to 1830, named after the Hanoverian kings George I, George II, George III and George IV. The definition of the Georgian era is also often ext
Painting of King George III and his family by Thomas Stothard (1787)
18th-century London (Soho Square)
East Indiaman in the China Seas
The subscription room at Lloyd's of London in the early 19th century