《英国国情：英国历史文化》共分为十五个单元。教材内容主要展示了从诺曼征服到英国当代的主要历史发展脉络，涵盖了较为系统的英国历史基础知识。英国历史的一般性主题和话题将贯穿教材始终，并对英国王室及相关重要历史事件有所侧重，其中包括英国各王朝的形成与更替、英国历史发展过程中的主要战争、主要君主及相关政治、社会、文化成就等诸多方面。

Unit 1 The Birth of a Nation
Text A The Ancient Britons and Invasions
Text B Anglo-Saxon England
Text C King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Text D The Venerable Bede (673—735)
Unit 2 The Normans
Text A The Norman Monarchs
Text B Feudalism after the Norman Conquest
Text C The Doomsday Book
Unit 3 The Early Plantagenet
Text A The Rule ofLaw
Text B The Canterbury Tales
Text C The Crusades
Unit 4 The House of Plantagenet
Text A The Birth of Parliament
Text B The Magna Carta
Text C King John
Unit 5 The 14th-century England
Text A The Hundred Years’ War
Text B The Black Death and Wat Tyler Uprising
Text C Wat Tyler and His Revolting Peasants
Text D Joan of Arc—Maid of Orleans
Unit 6 The House of Lancasterand York
Text A The Wars of the Roses
Text B The Mystery of the Princes in the Tower
Text C The Middle Ages
Unit 7 The Tudor Age
Text A The Tudor Monarchy
Text B The Reformationin England (1517—1563)
Text C King Henry VII
Text D Henry VIII and His Marriage
Unit 8 The Elizabethan Age
Text A The Reign of Elizabeth I
Text B Queen Elizabeth I
Text C Entertainment in Elizabethan Age
Text D Defeat of the Spanish Armada
Unit 9 The House of Stuart
Text A The Age of Revolution
Text B King James VIandI
Text C The English Civil War
Unit 10 The House of Hanover
Text A The Hanoverian Monarchs
Text B Napoleon Bonaparte (1769—1821)
Text C King GeorgeI II
Unit 11 TheIndustrial Revolution
Text A The British Industrial Revolution
Text B Machines for the Industrial Revolution
Text C The Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
Unit 12 The Victorian Age (1837—1901)
Text A Queen Victoria and Her Reign
Text B Everyday Life in Victorian England
Text C Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
Unit 13 The World at War
Text A The Great Britain in the World Wars
Text B Causes of World WarI
Text C Winston Churchill
Unit 14 Towards the New Millennium
Text A House of Windsor
Text B Queen Elizabeth II
Text C Margaret Thatcher
Unit 15 Wales, Scotland and Ireland
Text A The English Conquest of Wales
Text B The Story of Scotland
Text C The Ties between Ireland and the Great Britain
Appendixes
Appendix 1: Kings and Queens of England and Britain
Appendix 2: Genealogy of the Monarchs of England
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