The Sea

• Roman Invasion and Civilisation.
• Battle of Hastings and Norman Conquest.
• Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada.
• The East India Company and the Battle of Plassey.
• The loss of America.
• Nelson's death and the Battle of Trafalgar.
• The abolition of the slave trade.
• Dr Livingstone and Africa.
• SS Windrush and Multiculturalism.
• The Channel Tunnel.

Freedom

• King Alfred the Great and the Doom Book.
• Magna Carta and trial by jury.
• Execution of Charles I.
• Glorious Revolution and Bill of Rights.
• Act of Union.
• Britain's first Prime Minister Robert Walpole.
• Sir Robert Peel and the British Bobby.
• The Suffragettes.
• The NHS and Welfare State.
• Britain joins Europe.

Roots

• Stonehenge.
• St Augustine and Christianity.
• Canterbury Tales.
• Religious Settlement.
• Shakespeare.
• Gin craze and British drink culture.
• Battle of Waterloo and national identity.
• The Red House and 'my home is my castle'.
• The BBC.
• The Beatles.

Struggle

• Declaration of Arbroath.
• Peasants' Revolt.
• Gunpowder Plot.
• Plantation of Ulster.
• Factory Acts 1850 and the British weekend.
• The Battle of the Somme.
• Gandhi and Indian Independence.
• The Blitz.
• Miners' strike and Mrs Thatcher.
• The Good Friday Agreement.

Ingenuity

• The longbows at Agincourt.
• The Bank of England.
• Longitude.
• Watt's Steam Engine.
• Arkwright's Spinning Frame.
• Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.
• Charles Darwin and evolution.
• The laws of association football.
• Frank Whittle and the jet engine.
• Monty Python and British humour.