A Shortened History of England
Author | : George Macaulay Trevelyan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 603 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Gran Bretaña- - Historia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Macaulay Trevelyan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 603 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Gran Bretaña- - Historia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Simon Jenkins |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011-11-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1610391438 |
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 | : James Hawes |
Publisher | : The Experiment, LLC |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2022-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1615198156 |
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 | : Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Macaulay Trevelyan |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780140102413 |
Author | : Clyve Jones |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 184383717X |
This institutional history charts the development and evolution of parliament from the Scottish and Irish parliaments, through the post-Act of Union parliament and into the devolved assemblies of the 1990s. It considers all aspects of parliament as an institution, including membership, parties, constituencies and elections.
Author | : Mike Ashley |
Publisher | : Robinson |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2014-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147211731X |
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 | : Jeremy Black |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2015-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472586662 |
A brief overview of British history from prehistory to the present day
Author | : Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250013674 |
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 | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2019-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0241985366 |
'Fascinating and timely. Required reading for every developer, planner or councillor who holds London in trust today' Griff Rhys Jones 'Accessible, clear and readable' Rowan Moore, The Observer ________________________ LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This unremarkable place - not even included in the Domesday Book - became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the largest empire in history. And rising from the rubble of the Blitz, it is now one of the greatest cities in the world. From the prehistoric occupants of the Thames valley to the preoccupied commuters of today, Simon Jenkins brings together the key events, individuals and trends in London's history to create a matchless portrait of the capital. ________________________ 'A vivid and deeply well-informed account of London's history' Charles Saumarez Smith, Professor of Cultural History, Queen Mary University of London 'Extremely informative and witty' Roy Porter, author of London: A Social History on Landlords to London 'A short, invigorating gallop over two and a half thousand years' Scotsman on A Short History of Europe