Textbooks may be chosen from the following list, to be updated periodically. An instructor’s custom Course Reader, or selected additional monographs may be required. Additional online resources may also be assigned, and links to specific resources may be provided in the course outline.
Bartlett, Thomas. Ireland: A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Burton, Antoinette. The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Campbell, Kenneth L. A History of the British Isles. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Davies, John. A History of Wales London: Penguin, 2007.
Devine, T. M. The Scottish Nation: A Modern History. London: Penguin, 2012.
Fraser, Hamish, and Callum G. Brown. Britain Since 1707. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Heyck, Thomas William, and Meredith Veldman. The Peoples of the British Isles: A New History. From 1688 to the Present, 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Kearney, Hugh. The British Isles: A History of Four Nations, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Kent, Susan Kingley. A New History of Britain since 1688: Four Nations and an Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Levine, Philippa. The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Meigs, Samantha A., and Stanford E. Lehmberg. The People of the British Isles: A New History. From Prehistoric Times to 1688. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Mitchison, Rosalind. A History of Scotland, 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Ranelagh, John O’Beirne. A Short History of Ireland, 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Tombs, Robert. The English and Their History. London: Penguin, 2015.