A Child’s History of England

by Charles Dickens

First published 1851

Contents

CHAPTER 1. Ancient England and the Romans
CHAPTER 2. Ancient England Under the Early Saxons
CHAPTER 3. England Under the Good Saxon, Alfred
CHAPTER 4. England Under Athelstan and the Six Boy-Kings
CHAPTER 5. England Under Canute the Dane
CHAPTER 6. England Under Harold Harefoot, Hardicanute, and Edward the Confessor
CHAPTER 7. England Under Harold the Second, and Conquered by the Normans
CHAPTER 8. England Under William the First, the Norman Conqueror
CHAPTER 9. England Under William the Second, Called Rufus
CHAPTER 10. England Under Henry the First, Called Fine-Scholar
CHAPTER 11. England Under Matilda and Stephen
CHAPTER 12. England Under Henry the Second
CHAPTER 13. England Under Richard the First, Called the Lion-Heart
CHAPTER 14. England Under King John, Called Lackland
CHAPTER 15. England Under Henry the Third, Called, of Winchester
CHAPTER 16. England Under Edward the First, Called Longshanks
CHAPTER 17. England Under Edward the Second
CHAPTER 18. England Under Edward the Third
CHAPTER 19. England Under Richard the Second
CHAPTER 20. England Under Henry the Fourth, Called Bolingbroke
CHAPTER 21. England Under Henry the Fifth
CHAPTER 22. England Under Henry the Sixth
CHAPTER 23. England Under Edward the Fourth
CHAPTER 24. England Under Edward the Fifth
CHAPTER 25. England Under Richard the Third
CHAPTER 26. England Under Henry the Seventh
CHAPTER 27. England Under Henry the Eighth, Called Bluff King Hal and Burly King Harry
CHAPTER 28. England Under Henry the Eighth
CHAPTER 29. England Under Edward the Sixth
CHAPTER 30. England Under Mary
CHAPTER 31. England Under Elizabeth
CHAPTER 32. England Under James the First
CHAPTER 33. England Under Charles the First
CHAPTER 34. England Under Oliver Cromwell
CHAPTER 35. England Under Charles the Second, Called the Merry Monarch
CHAPTER 36. England Under James the Second
CHAPTER 37