The History Of England

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 : Simon Jenkins
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Captivating History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 164748278X

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History of England by Captivating History Pdf

There are few places that entice the imagination quite like England. Just a little island off the western coast of continental Europe, it boasts a rich history that stretches all the way back to the first modern humans.

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 : David Hume,Tobias Smollett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : England
ISBN : NYPL:33433075878060

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The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume,Tobias Smollett Pdf

Author : Clayton Roberts,F David Roberts,Douglas Bisson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 53,6 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.

Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1106 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447271703

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Civil War by Peter Ackroyd Pdf

In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The Stuart dynasty brought together the two nations of England and Scotland into one realm, albeit a realm still marked by political divisions that echo to this day. More importantly, perhaps, the Stuart era was marked by the cruel depredations of civil war, and the killing of a king. Ackroyd paints a vivid portrait of James I and his heirs. Shrewd and opinionated, the new King was eloquent on matters as diverse as theology, witchcraft and the abuses of tobacco, but his attitude to the English parliament sowed the seeds of the division that would split the country in the reign of his hapless heir, Charles I. Ackroyd offers a brilliant – warts and all – portrayal of Charles's nemesis Oliver Cromwell, Parliament's great military leader and England's only dictator, who began his career as a political liberator but ended it as much of a despot as 'that man of blood', the king he executed. England's turbulent seventeenth century is vividly laid out before us, but so too is the cultural and social life of the period, notable for its extraordinarily rich literature, including Shakespeare's late masterpieces, Jacobean tragedy, the poetry of John Donne and Milton and Thomas Hobbes' great philosophical treatise, Leviathan. Civil War also gives us a very real sense of the lives of ordinary English men and women, lived out against a backdrop of constant disruption and uncertainty.

Author : Arthur Leslie Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9350022559

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

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCSD:31822039598644

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The History of England: Foundation by Peter Ackroyd Pdf

The first in an extraordinary six-volume history, "Foundation" takes the reader from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII.

Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547609049

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A History of England by Charles Oman Pdf

"A History of England" by Charles Oman is a monumental work that provides readers with a comprehensive and insightful journey through the annals of English history. Oman's narrative skillfully navigates the historical tapestry of England, from its early origins to significant events and eras. This book is an indispensable resource for those seeking a deep understanding of the nation's past, offering a richly detailed account that captivates and educates.

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Short History of England by G. K. Chesterton Pdf

I INTRODUCTION II THE PROVINCE OF BRITAIN III THE AGE OF LEGENDS IV THE DEFEAT OF THE BARBARIANS V ST. EDWARD AND THE NORMAN KINGS VI THE AGE OF THE CRUSADES VII THE PROBLEM OF THE PLANTAGENETS VIII THE MEANING OF MERRY ENGLAND IX NATIONALITY AND THE FRENCH WARS X THE WAR OF THE USURPERS XI THE REBELLION OF THE RICH XII SPAIN AND THE SCHISM OF NATIONS XIII THE AGE OF THE PURITANS XIV THE TRIUMPH OF THE WHIGS XV THE WAR WITH THE GREAT REPUBLICS XVI ARISTOCRACY AND THE DISCONTENTS XVII THE RETURN OF THE BARBARIAN XVIII CONCLUSION

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Dan McIntyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781000298406

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History of English by Dan McIntyre Pdf

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings – all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible ‘two-dimensional’ structure is built around four sections – introduction, development, exploration and extension – which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained. This revised second edition of History of English includes: ❑ a comprehensive introduction to the history of English covering the origins of English, the change from Old to Middle English, and the influence of other languages on English; ❑ increased coverage of key issues, such as the standardisation of English; ❑ a wider range of activities, plus answers to exercises; ❑ new readings of well-known authors such as Manfred Krug, Colette Moore, Merja Stenroos and David Crystal; ❑ a timeline of important external events in the history of English. Structured to reflect the chronological development of the English language, History of English describes and explains the changes in the language over a span of 1,500 years, covering all aspects from phonology and grammar, to register and discourse. In doing so, it incorporates examples from a wide variety of texts and provides an interactive and structured textbook that will be essential reading for all students of English language and linguistics.

Author : Clayton Roberts,David F. Roberts,Douglas Bisson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315509594

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A History of England, Volume 2 by Clayton Roberts,David F. Roberts,Douglas Bisson Pdf

A History of England, Volume 2 (1688 to the Present), focuses on the key events and themes of English history since 1688. Topics include Britain's emergence as a great power in the 18th century, the American War for Independence, the Industrial Revolution, and the economic crisis of the 1970s.