The popular history of England
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 125003759X
Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental book in his The History of England series, charting the course of English history from Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I. Rich in detail and atmosphere, Peter Ackroyd's Tudors is the story of Henry VIII's relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir; of how the brief reign of the teenage king, Edward VI, gave way to the violent reimposition of Catholicism and the stench of bonfires under "Bloody Mary." It tells, too, of the long reign of Elizabeth I, which, though marked by civil strife, plots against the queen and even an invasion force, finally brought stability. Above all, however, it is the story of the English Reformation and the making of the Anglican Church. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, England was still largely feudal and looked to Rome for direction; at its end, it was a country where good governance was the duty of the state, not the church, and where men and women began to look to themselves for answers rather than to those who ruled them.
Author : Lacey Baldwin Smith
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
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Author : David Hume
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 1822
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Charles Robert Knight
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2024-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385504937
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : 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 : Walter L. Arnstein
Publisher : D.C. Heath
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780669244601
This text, which is the fourth volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions. This is the only comprehensive text available for the History of England survey course that has been revised and updated to include coverage of the entire 20th century.
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher :
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Kelly DeVries
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843830276
Three weeks before the battle of Hastings, Harold defeated an invading army of Norwegians at the battle of Stamford Bridge, a victory which was to cost him dear. The events surrounding the battle are discussed in detail. This very accessible narrative...tells the story of 'the first two important battles of 1066', Fulford Gate and Stamford Bridge, and of the leaders of the opposing English and Norwegian factions. CHOICE He places the invasion in a broad context. He outlines the Anglo-Scandinavian nature of the English kingdom in the eleventh century, traces the careers of the major leaders, and devotes a chapter each to the English and Norwegian military systems. JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY William the Conqueror's invasion in 1066 was not the only attack on England that year. On September 25, 1066, less than three weeks before William defeated King Harold II Godwinson at the battle of Hastings, that same Harold had been victorious over his other opponent of 1066, King Haraldr Hardrádi of Norway at the battle of Stamford Bridge. It was an impressive victory, driving an invading army of Norwegians from theearldom of Northumbria; but it was to cost Harold dear. In telling the story of this neglected battle, Kelly DeVries traces the rise and fall of a family of English warlords, the Godwins, as well as that of the equally impressiveNorwegian warlord Hardrádi. KELLY DEVRIES is Associate Professor, Department of History, Loyola College in Maryland.
Author : Tobias Smollett
Publisher :
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 1758
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :