History of England
Author
Author
Series
History of England volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
One of Britain's most popular and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the birth of England. The first in an extraordinary six-volume history, "Foundation" takes the reader from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII.
Author
Series
History of England volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ackroyd brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life, charting the course of English history from Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I.
Author
Series
History of England volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Examines the Stuart dynasty during a turbulent seventeenth century marked by civil war, the execution of Charles I, the rule of Oliver Cromwell, and the deposition and exile of James II.
Author
Series
History of England volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning novelist, broadcaster, biographer and historian behind Thames: Sacred River offers the fourth volume in his sweeping history of England, covering the events from William of Oranges accession to the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.
Author
Series
History of England volume 5
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of England from 1815 after the Battle of Waterloo to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, citing the abolition of slavery, England's technological progress, and intense industrialization.
6) Innovation
Author
Series
History of England volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Innovation, the sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, takes readers from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later. Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne...