A Complete History Of England

Author : Simon Jenkins
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610391436

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A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins Pdf

The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar—-from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two world wars. But to understand their full sig­nificance we need to know the whole story. A Short History of England sheds new light on all the key individuals and events in English histo­ry by bringing them together in an enlightening account of the country’s birth, rise to global promi­nence, and then partial eclipse. Written with flair and authority by Guardian columnist and LondonTimes former editor Simon Jenkins, this is the definitive narrative of how today’s England came to be. Concise but comprehensive, with more than a hundred color illustrations, this beautiful single-volume history will be the standard work for years to come.

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250013675

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Foundation by Peter Ackroyd Pdf

The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion. In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past--a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house--and describes in rich prose the successive waves of invaders who made England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon, or Norman French. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, of civil strife, and foreign wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how England's early people lived: the homes they built, the clothes the wore, the food they ate, even the jokes they told. All are brought vividly to life in this history of England through the narrative mastery of one of Britain's finest writers.

Author : Rebecca Fraser
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393072495

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The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History by Rebecca Fraser Pdf

“A beautifully written story, a box of delights, a treasure trove: final proof of truth’s superiority over fiction.”—Andrew Roberts A sparkling anecdotal account with the pace of an epic, about the men and women who created turning points in history. Rebecca Fraser's dramatic portrayal of the scientists, statesmen, explorers, soldiers, traders, and artists who forged Britain's national institutions is the perfect introduction to British history. Just as much as kings and queens, battles and empire, Britain's great themes have been the liberty of the individual, the rule of law, and the parliamentary democracy invented to protect them. Ever since Caractacus and Boudicca surprised the Romans with the bravery of their resistance, Britain has stood out as the home of freedom. From Thomas More to William Wilberforce, from Gladstone to Churchill, Britain's history is studded with heroic figures who have resisted tyranny in all its guises, whether it be the Stuart kings' belief in divine right, the institution of slavery, or the ambitions of Napoleon and Hitler.

Author : Tobias George Smollett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1766
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : BSB:BSB10225525

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Continuation Of The Complete History Of England by Tobias George Smollett Pdf

Author : T. Smollett
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9354442080

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A Complete History Of England, From The Descent Of Julius Caesar, To The Treaty Of Aix La Chapelle, 1748. Containing The Transactions Of One Thousand Eight Hundred And Three Years (Volume Iv) by T. Smollett Pdf

A Complete History Of England, From The Descent Of Julius Caesar, To The Treaty Of Aix La Chapelle, 1748. Containing The Transactions Of One Thousand Eight Hundred And Three Years (Volume Iv) has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:$B749108

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The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume Pdf

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250135544

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Innovation by Peter Ackroyd Pdf

Innovation, the sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, takes readers from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later. Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne for almost five decades. It was a century of enormous change, encompassing two world wars, four monarchs (Edward VII, George V, George VI and the Queen), the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the Labour Party, women's suffrage, the birth of the NHS, the march of suburbia and the clearance of the slums. It was a period that saw the work of the Bloomsbury Group and T.S. Eliot, of Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, from the end of the post-war slump to the technicolor explosion of the 1960s, to free love and punk rock, and from Thatcher to Blair. A vividly readable, richly peopled tour de force, Innovation is Peter Ackroyd writing at the height of his powers.

Author : David Starkey
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007424825

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Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy by David Starkey Pdf

An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated.

Author : Arthur Leslie Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9350022559

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A People's History of England by Arthur Leslie Morton Pdf

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472117311

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A Brief History of British Kings & Queens by Mike Ashley Pdf

Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years. Fascinating portraits are expertly woven into a history of division and eventual union of the British Isles - even royals we think most familiar are revealed in a new and sometimes surprising light. This revised and shortened edition of The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens includes biographies of the royals of recorded British history, plus an overview of the semi-legendary figures of pre-history and the Dark Ages - an accessible source for students and general readers.

Author : Tobias Smollett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1758
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UVA:X000764708

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A Complete History of England by Tobias Smollett Pdf

Author : W C Sellar
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014250234

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1066 and All That by W C Sellar Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1106 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101873366

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The English and Their History by Robert Tombs Pdf

Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history of a people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in existence. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, Tombs sheds light on the strength and resilience of English governance, the deep patterns of division among the people who have populated the British Isles, the persistent capacity of the English to come together in the face of danger, and not the least the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. Momentous and definitive, The English and Their History is the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century.

Author : James Hawes
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781615198153

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The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History) by James Hawes Pdf

How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. England—begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor—is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth. This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinvented—yet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and Parliament (starring the Magna Carta), America’s War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and England’s break from the EU. We discover: why the American colonists of 1776 believed that they were the true Anglo-Saxons how the British Empire was undermined from within why Winston Churchill said the UK could only be saved by splitting up England itself and how populism spawned Brexit and its “new elite.” The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient life—offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today’s headlines.

Author : Clayton Roberts,F David Roberts,Douglas Bisson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315509990

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A History of England, Volume 1 by Clayton Roberts,F David Roberts,Douglas Bisson Pdf

This two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past. A History of England, Volume 1 (Prehistory to 1714), focuses on the most important developments in the history of England through the early 18th century. Topics include the Viking and Norman conquests of the 11th century, the creation of the monarchy, the Reformation, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688.