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.
The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion.
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, ...
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 ...
A History of England, Volume 2 (1688 to the Present), focuses on the key events and themes of English history since 1688.