This text, which is the first volume in the best selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions.The Eighth Edition incorporates more women's history, while continuing to provide balanced political and economic coverage with social and cultural history woven throughout.New co-authors Robert and Robin Stacey of the University of Washington bring the historical analysis up to date with expanded coverage of Celtic and Roman Britain, and reconceptualized treatment of the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England to Christianity.The text features stronger thematic emphasis on the formation of English political identity to 1399, and a new treatment of Henry III's reign.