Old English Period (500 – 1066)
- Celts (Arrived C 500 BCE)
- Were divided in different tribes: Gales, Britons
- Celtic language is the origin of modern Wales.
- Gaelic was another dialect of them
- Romans (43 CE)
- Claudius invaded England and Romans ruled for 300 years nearly.
- Anglo Saxons (450 – 600 CE)
- Heptarchy (Greek for rule of seven): Kent, Essex, Sussex, Wessex, East, Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria
- Danes or Vikins (During 800s) were restricted by Alfred the Great.
- Edward the Confessor was the last Saxon King.
Middle English Period 1066 – 1550:
11th Century – 14th Century
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Pre-Chaucerian Period/Anglo-Norman Period (1066 – 1340)
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The Age of Chaucer (1340 – 1400)
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15th Century – 16th Century
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Age of Revival (1400 – 1550)
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Pre-Modern Age (16th – 20th Century)
16th Century
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The Renaissance (1500 – 1600)
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Elizabethan Age (1558 – 1603)
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The Age of Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
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17th Century
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Jacobean Age (1603-1625)
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Caroline Age (1625-1649)
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Puritan Age / The Age of Milton/ (1649 – 1660)
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Restoration Age/ The Age of Dryden (1660 – 1700)
18th Century
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Fiest Half: Neo Classical
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Augustan Age/ The Age of Pope/ Satire/ Prose & Reason/ Neo-Classical Age/ Early Georgian Age (1700 – 1745)
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The Age of Johnson/ Middle Georgian Age (1745 -1798)
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Transition to Romanticism
19th Century
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The Age of Wordsworth/Romantic Age/ Later Georgian Age/ Age of Revolution (1798 – 1850)
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Age of Tennyson (1832-87)
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Victorian Age (1837/50 – 1901)
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Modern Age (1900 – 2000):
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Early Modern Age (1901-1918)
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Age of Hardy (1887 – 1928)
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Inter-War Period (1918-1939)
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Mid 20th Century (1939-Onwards)