Presenting material on themes such as women's history, the family, religion, intellectual history, society, politics and the arts, these volumes provide a resource for students of the political and cultural heritage of the British Isles.
The three volumes of A History of the Peoples of the British Isles weave together the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and their peoples.
The Peoples of the British Isles: A New History
The new edition of The Peoples of the British Isles presents the history of the peoples of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from prehistoric times to the present.
Suggested Reading Birley , Anthony , Life in Roman Britain ( New York : Putnam , 1964 ) . Birley , Anthony , The People of Roman Britain ( Berkeley ... Frere , Sheppard , Britannia , 3rd ed . ( London : Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1987 ) .
This said, there is little doubt that Rees Davies' book The First English Empire (2000) constitutes a landmark in the historiography of these islands. Davies, a Welsh-speaking scholar who possesses first-hand knowledge of Welsh history, ...
The new edition of these books features a fuller treatment of the Celtic countries and expanded and integrated content on both popular culture and the changing roles of women in society throughout history.
For people-watchers everywhere, this is the definitive guide to one of the strangest peoples in existence: the British.
Some peasants, known as cottars, had no land of their own to farm and had to get by assisting others in the fields or finding whatever work they could. Sometimes this necessitated leaving the manor, or even drifting around the ...
The bestselling and controversial new history of the 'British Isles', including Ireland from the author of Europe: A History. Emphasizing our long-standing European connections and positing a possible break-up of...
Johnston, D., 'Richard II and the Submissions of Gaelic Ireland', Irish Historical Studies, 22 (1980), 1–20. Johnston, D., 'The Interim Years: Richard II and Ireland, 1395–99', in J. Lydon (ed.), England and Irelandinthe Later Middle ...