'Our Island Story,' by H. E. Marshall is a popular choice for British history. Well, history and mythology. Some stories are still good for the telling even if they're not entirely factual. Your milage may vary, but this is how I've assigned them. Will be updated as time passes and we stride through history. :)
SOTW 1
Chapter 28, The Roman Empire
Our Island Story pg 1- The Stories of Albion and Brutus
Chapter 35, Caesar the Hero
Our Island Story pg 4- The Coming of the Romans
Our Island Story pg 9- The Romans Come Again
Chapter 36, The Roman Prince
Our Island Story pg 11- How Caligula Conquered Britain
Chapter 40, Rome Begins to Weaken
Our Island Story pg 15- A Warrior Queen
Our Island Story pg 20- The Last of the Romans
Our Island Story pg 24- The Story of St Alban
Our Island Story pg 29- Vortigern and King Constans
SOTW 2
Chapter 2, The Early Days of Britain
Our Island Story pg 33- The Story of the Coming of Hengist and Horsa
Our Island Story pg 39- Hengist's Treachery
Our Island Story pg 43- How Giant's Dance was brought to Britain
Our Island Story pg 48- The Coming of Arthur
Our Island Story pg 52- The Founding of the Round Table
Chapter 3, Christianity Comes to Britain
Our Island Story pg 56- The Story of Gregory
Chapter 15- The First Kings of England
Our Island Story pg 61- How King Alfred Learned to Read
Our Island Story pg 65- King Alfred in the Swineherd's Cottage
Our Island Story pg 70- More about Alfred the Great
Our Island Story pg 74- Ethelred the Unready
Our Island Story pg 78- How Edmund Ironside (Edmund II) fought for the crown
Our Island Story pg 82- Canute and the Waves
Our Island Story pg 85- Edward the Confessor
Our Island Story pg 90- Harold
Our Island Story pg 96- The Battle of Stamford Bridge
Our Island Story pg 102- The Battle of Hastings
Our Island Story pg 109- William the Conqueror
Our Island Story pg 114- William the Conqueror- Death of the King
Chapter 16- England After the Conquest
Our Island Story pg 118- William the Red
Our Island Story pg 121- Henry I
Our Island Story pg 129- King Stephen
Our Island Story pg 133- Henry Plantagenet- The Story of Gilbert and Rohesia
Our Island Story pg 137- Henry Plantagenet- The Story of Thomas a Becket
Our Island Story pg 143- Henry Plantagenet- The Story of the Conquest of Ireland
Chapter 19- A New Kind of King
Our Island Story pg 146- The Story of Richard Coeur de Lion
Our Island Story pg 153- Richard Coeur de Lion- How Blondel Found the King
Our Island Story pg 158- John Lackland- The Story of Prince Arthur
Our Island Story pg 161- John Lackland- The Story of the Great Charter
Our Island Story pg 169- Henry III- The Story of Hubert de Burgh
Our Island Story pg 173- Henry III- The Story of Simon de Montford
Our Island Story pg 178- Henry III- The Story of the Poisoned Dagger
Our Island Story pg 181- Edward I- The Little War of Chalons
Our Island Story pg 185- Edward I- First Prince of Wales
Our Island Story pg 189- Hammer of the Scots
Our Island Story pg 193- Edward II- The Story of Robert the Bruce
Our Island Story pg 198- Edward II- The Battle of Bannockburn (1314)
Chapter 26- France and England at War
Our Island Story pg 201- Edward III- The Story of the Battle of Sluys
Our Island Story pg 204- Edward III- The Story of the Battle of Crecy
Our Island Story pg 211- Edward III- The Story of the Siege of Calais
Our Island Story pg 217- Edward III- The Story of the Battle of Poitiers
Our Island Story pg 221- Richard II- The Story of Wat Tyler's Rebellion
Our Island Story pg 228- How Richard II lost his throne
Our Island Story pg 230- Henry IV- The Battle of Shrewsbury
Our Island Story pg 234- Henry IV- How Prince Hal was sent to Prison
Our Island Story pg 238- Henry V- The Battle of Agincourt
Our Island Story pg 242- Henry VI- The Story of the Maid of Orleans
Chapter 27- War for the English Throne
Our Island Story pg 247- Henry VI- The Red Rose and the White
Our Island Story pg 253- Edward IV- The Story of Queen Margaret and the Robbers
Our Island Story pg 256- Edward IV- The Story of the Kingmaker
Our Island Story pg 260- The Story of the King Who Was Never Crowned
Our Island Story pg 265- Richard III- The Princes in the Tower
Our Island Story pg 269- Henry VII- The Story of a Make Believe Prince
Our Island Story pg 273- Henry VII- The Story of Another Make Believe Prince
Chapter 34- Martin Luther's New Ideas
Our Island Story pg 278- Henry VIII- The Story of the Field of the Cloth of Gold
Our Island Story pg 284- Henry VIII- How the King Became the Defender of the Faith and How the Great Cardinal Died
Our Island Story pg 290- Henry VIII- The Story of the King's Six Wives
Chapter 38- England's Greatest Queen
Our Island Story pg 294- Story of a Boy King
Our Island Story pg 299- The Story of Lady Jane Grey
Our Island Story pg 303- Mary I- How the Princess Elizabeth Became a Prisoner
Our Island Story pg 307- Mary I- How a Candle was Lit in England which has Never Been Put Out
Our Island Story pg 310- Elizabeth- How The Imprisoned Princess Became a Queen
Our Island Story pg 313- Elizabeth I- The Story of a Most Unhappy Queen
Chapter 42- Empires Collide
Our Island Story pg 318- Elizabeth- The Story of How England was saved from the Spanish
Our Island Story pg 323- Elizabeth- The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh
Our Island Story pg 328- Elizabeth- The Story of the Queen's Favourite
To be continued…
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