The time from Britain's first inhabitation until the last glacial maximum is known as the Old Stone Age, or Palaeolithic era. Archaeological evidence indicates that what was to become England was colonised by humans long before the rest of the British Isles because of its more hospitable climate between and during the various glacial periods of the distant past. This earliest evidence, from Happisburgh in Norfolk, includes the oldest human footprints found outside Africa, and points to dates of more than 800,000 BP.

Theory History of England:
- Prehistoric
- Stone Age
- Later Prehistory
- Genetic history of the English
- Roman Britain
- The Anglo-Saxon invasion
- Heptarchy and Christianisation
- Viking challenge and the rise of Wessex
- English unification
- England under the Danes and the Norman conquest
- Norman England
- England under the Plantagenets
- Magna Carta
- 14th century
- Black Death
- 15th century – Henry V and the Wars of the Roses
- Tudor England
- Henry VII
- Henry VIII
- Edward VI and Mary I
- Elizabeth I
- Elizabethan era
- Foreign affairs
- End of Tudor era
- 17th century
- Union of the Crowns
- Colonial England
- English Civil War
- Restoration of the monarchy
- Glorious Revolution
- Formation of the United Kingdom
- Modern England, 18th–19th centuries
- Industrial Revolution
- Local governance
- 20th and 21st centuries
- General history and political issues
- Political history and local government
- Recent changes