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The Complete History of England, From Stonehenge to Today

Published Oct 28, 2026 · 38 min

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In 2012, archaeologists dug into a council car park in Leicester and found a king who had been missing for 527 years: Richard III, killed at Bosworth in 1485. This is the full history of England: how a small, often-invaded corner of an island became a country that shaped the modern world, and at what cost, at home and abroad.

Narration in this film is a synthetic, cloned voice. Sources and image credits are in the YouTube description.

Chapters

1. 00:00 Channel opening
2. 00:10 The king under the car park
3. 01:16 An island at the edge of an empire
4. 03:48 The making of the English
5. 06:09 Wessex, the Danes and the tide
6. 09:12 Three kings and a survey
7. 11:39 Common law, conquest and a comeback
8. 14:24 The Tudors and the break with Rome
9. 18:13 The king on trial
10. 21:58 Sugar, slavery and the Company
11. 25:31 Coal, cotton and the machine
12. 27:56 Reform, famine and the vote
13. 30:34 Two world wars
14. 33:41 The NHS, Windrush and Europe
15. 36:44 Under the surface

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