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The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion.
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.
This two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past.
"A fast-paced tour of 2,000 years of English history, tracing its secret north-south divide and notorious class system"--
Finch declared that 'acts of parliament to take away his royal power in the defence of the kingdom are void'. Or, as another judge had put it, 'rex est lex' – the king is the law. The ancient rights of Englishmen were of no importance, ...
The History Of England: A Study In Political Evolution. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick). The History Of England: A Study In Political Evolution, .
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 ...
A History of England, Volume 2 (1688 to the Present), focuses on the key events and themes of English history since 1688.
"Ackroyd, as always, is well worth the read." —Kirkus, starred review Dominion, the fifth volume of Peter Ackroyd’s masterful History of England, begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to a post-war ...
It was a period that saw the work of the Bloomsbury Group and T.S. Eliot, of Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, from the end of the post-war slump to the technicolor explosion of the 1960s, to free love and punk rock, and from Thatcher to ...