The Story Of England

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0670919047
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of England written by Michael Wood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Story of England Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over fifteen centuries, from the moment that the Roman Emperor Honorius sent his famous letter in 410 advising the English to look to their own defences to the village as it is today. The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. In the thirteenth century the village was bought by William de Merton, who later founded Merton College, Oxford, with the result that documents covering 750 years of village history are lodged at the college. Building on this unique archive, and enlisting the help of the current inhabitants of Kibworth, with a village-wide archeological dig, with the first complete DNA profile of an English village and with use of local materials like family memorabilia, the story of Kibworth is the story of England itself, a 'Who Do You Think You Are?' for the entire nation. 'Better than any historian for decades, [in In Search of England] Wood brings home not just the ways in which buildings, landscapes and written texts may be read, but the sensual beauty of encounters with them' TLS Michael Wood was born and educated in Manchester. He was an open scholar in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford, where he held a Bishop Fraser scholarship in Medieval History as a postgraduate. He has made a number of internationally successful tv series, including In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great, and four of his books have been UK non-fiction number one bestsellers. His highly acclaimed book of essays on early English history, In Search of England, was published by Penguin in 1999.

Author : Simon Jenkins
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610391438
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of England written by Simon Jenkins and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1250013674
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundation written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James Hawes
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1615198156
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History) written by James Hawes and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard Brassey
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 144401496X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of England written by Richard Brassey and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and informative look at the colourful history of England from bestselling author and illustrator, Richard Brassey. This is the history of England, told with Richard's trademark humour and verve, and illustrated in full colour on every page. From 1066 to the present day, through civil wars, great fires and mighty monarchs, Richard explores the rich and exciting history of England with fun and fascinating facts and stories!

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of England written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of England written by Jane Austen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This facsimilie of Jane Austen's parody of Oliver Goldsmith's History of England has been reproduced to mirror the original handwritten manuscript. Spanning the reign of Henry IV to the death of Charles I, the manuscript is accompanied by a full transcript.

Author : Simon Thurley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000752790X
Total Pages : 943 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Building of England: How the History of England Has Shaped Our Buildings written by Simon Thurley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From awe-inspiring Norman castles, to the skyscrapers of today, Simon Thurley explores how the architecture of this small island influenced the world.

Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571171422
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Story of English written by Robert McCrum and published by . This book was released on 1993-06-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: