- The emergence of a modern nation (1500-1688)

- The enlightenment: a century of revolutions  (1688-1789)

- Nature and culture: the ambiguities of an age of mutations (1789-1837)

- The victorian age: from the triumph of empire to fin-de-siècle uncertainties (1837-1901)

- The first half of the 20th century: the age of anxiety - Blurring boundaries and breaking barriers (1950s to the present day)

- Postcolonialism - Imagining the new world (1620-1776)

- Shaping the nation (1776-1860)

- Tears in the national fabric (1840-1914)

- Progress and its perils (1914-45)

- Protest culture, political culture (1945 to the present day) Voicing otherness