Survey of early modern British history from the rise of the Tudor dynasty in 1485 until the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Topics include the War of the Roses, the Tudor and Stuart eras, the Protestant Reformation, the English Renaissance, the age of exploration, the origins of the British Empire, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the social history of Britain, the history of gender and sexuality, as well as the ways in which the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales were interconnected in the early modern period.