The Story of England

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961155
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis The Story of England by : Michael Wood

Download or read book The Story of England written by Michael Wood and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A VILLAGE AND ITS PEOPLE THROUGH THE WHOLE OF ENGLISH HISTORY 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. Bought in the thirteenth century by William de Merton, who founded Merton College, Oxford, it also lodges 750 years of village history. 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. He builds on this unique archive, enlisting the help of Kibworth's inhabitants in a village-wide archaeological dig and the first complete DNA profile of an English village. 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, 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

Foundation

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250013674
Total Pages : 496 pages
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Book Synopsis Foundation by : Peter Ackroyd

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.

Stories of Early England (Classic Reprint)

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333801328
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Book Synopsis Stories of Early England (Classic Reprint) by : Ethel Mary Wilmot-Buxton

Download or read book Stories of Early England (Classic Reprint) written by Ethel Mary Wilmot-Buxton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories of Early England Now, the boys and girls of the present day should lose the chance of knowing these charming tales of olden days because they were told and written down in what seems to them a foreign tongue. The Celtic tales really are foreign to English children, for the Eng. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Stories of Early England

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Stories of Early England written by Ethel Mary Wilmot-Buxton and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134707258
Total Pages : 233 pages
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Book Synopsis Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England by : Barbara Yorke

Download or read book Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England written by Barbara Yorke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England provides a unique survey of the six major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and their royal families, examining the most recent research in this field.

The Sutton Hoo Story

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ISBN 13 : 9781783272044
Total Pages : 0 pages
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The English and Their History

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101873361
Total Pages : 1106 pages
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Book Synopsis The English and Their History by : Robert Tombs

Download or read book The English and Their History written by Robert Tombs and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Reading History in Early Modern England

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521780469
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading History in Early Modern England by : D. R. Woolf

Download or read book Reading History in Early Modern England written by D. R. Woolf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of writing, publishing and marketing history books in the early modern period.

The Anglo-Saxons

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 164313535X
Total Pages : 452 pages
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Book Synopsis The Anglo-Saxons by : Marc Morris

Download or read book The Anglo-Saxons written by Marc Morris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy, and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the vikings. It explores how they abandoned their old gods for Christianity, established hundreds of churches and created dazzlingly intricate works of art. It charts the revival of towns and trade, and the origins of a familiar landscape of shires, boroughs and bishoprics. It is a tale of famous figures like King Offa, Alfred the Great and Edward the Confessor, but also features a host of lesser known characters - ambitious queens, revolutionary saints, intolerant monks and grasping nobles. Through their remarkable careers we see how a new society, a new culture and a single unified nation came into being. Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles, letters, archaeology and artefacts - renowned historian Marc Morris illuminates a period of history that is only dimly understood, separates the truth from the legend, and tells the extraordinary story of how the foundations of England were laid.

A Short History of England

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Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610391438
Total Pages : 385 pages
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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 385 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 London Times 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.

Stories of Early England

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
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Download or read book Stories of Early England written by Ethel Mary Wilmot-Buxton and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198205029
Total Pages : 358 pages
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England by : Nigel Saul

Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England written by Nigel Saul and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book provides a comprehensive introduction to medieval England. Written by expert scholars and drawing on the latest research, it offers an authoritative survey of the years from the departure of the Roman legions to the Battle of Bosworth. The middle ages were a time of profound diversity and change. The main political themes are explored in three narrative chapters, covering the Anglo-Saxon period, the Normans and Angevins, and the late middle ages. Chapters on the social, cultural, and religious life of the period add context tothe political and institutional developments traced and cover topics as varied as the nature of national identity, urban life, art and architecture, religious practice, and the development of vernacular literature. 180 illustrations, maps, family trees, a chronology, guide to further reading, and a full index make this an indispensable guide to England in the middle ages. Contributors... Janet L. Nelson, Professor of History, King's College, London George Garnett, Fellow and Tutor in History, St Hugh's College, Oxford Chris Given-Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, University of St Andrews Christopher Dyer, Professor of Medieval Social History, University of Birmingham Henrietta Leyser, Lecturer in Medieval History, St Peter's College, Oxford Nicola Coldstream Derek Pearsall, Professor of English, Harvard University

Stories from English History

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Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Stories from English History written by Albert Franklin Blaisdell and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stories of Early England

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Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781355295402
Total Pages : 368 pages
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Book Synopsis Stories of Early England by : E M Wilmot-Buxton

Download or read book Stories of Early England written by E M Wilmot-Buxton and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Stories from English History

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 73 pages
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Download or read book Stories from English History written by Hilda T. Skae and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Stories from English History' is an engaging and educational book for children that brings the past to life. With fascinating tales spanning from Ancient Britain to the King of Spain, young readers will be transported through time to witness the struggles and triumphs of English history. From heroic feats to political intrigue, this book has it all. Follow the journey of a boy who would be king, discover the bravery of the Black Prince, and witness the daring act of singeing the King of Spain's beard. Perfect for history buffs of all ages, 'Stories from English History' is a must-read for anyone curious about the events that shaped England into the country it is today.

Stories and Studies From Chronicle and History

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267879229
Total Pages : 550 pages
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Download or read book Stories and Studies From Chronicle and History written by Mrs. S. C. Hall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories and Studies From Chronicle and History: England Tan little work here offered to young people has not been prepared for the purpose of teachin g them the history of the dear mother-land, * it is rather meant to attract them towards the acquirement of know ledge so essential, by the study of higher and better Authorities. Yet is this no unambitious aim. Com pilations, however useful in their way, are - with few exceptions - but the Form without the Spirit; it is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Ancient England

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Publisher : Salamander Books
ISBN 13 : 9781902616247
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Book Synopsis Ancient England by : Nigel Blundell

Download or read book Ancient England written by Nigel Blundell and published by Salamander Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the story of Britain from Paleolithic Man through the Bronze and Iron Ages, the Dark Ages, the Medieval Period, the Tudor Age to Restoration and beyond, Ancient England depicts it all through full color photographs and illustrations. Whether it is the mystery of Stonehenge or the tales of Henry VIII, the history of England is an exciting and interesting one for Europeans and Americans alike.