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Author: Alice Drayton Greenwood Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267157914 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 408
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Excerpt from History of the People of England, Vol. 1 The plan of the series can be explained in a few words. The early volumes are for children under ten whose study of history can only reach to the kindling of the imagination to realise in some degree how our forefathers lived, and who were the great builders of the mighty structure which is the nation of which they form a part. The middle part of the series is designed for the use of girls and boys of twelve to fourteen, who are at a stage of mental develop ment at which they should be able to trace a thread of continuity, and to connect cause and effect in the great story, which thus, besides giving food for imagination, begins the training of powers of judgment. The Senior books are for the use of those of fifteen and upward, able now to begin to weigh evidence, to ponder on the significance of facts, to cultivate the gift of historical thinking, which is better than historical learning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Alice Drayton Greenwood Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267157914 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 408
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Excerpt from History of the People of England, Vol. 1 The plan of the series can be explained in a few words. The early volumes are for children under ten whose study of history can only reach to the kindling of the imagination to realise in some degree how our forefathers lived, and who were the great builders of the mighty structure which is the nation of which they form a part. The middle part of the series is designed for the use of girls and boys of twelve to fourteen, who are at a stage of mental develop ment at which they should be able to trace a thread of continuity, and to connect cause and effect in the great story, which thus, besides giving food for imagination, begins the training of powers of judgment. The Senior books are for the use of those of fifteen and upward, able now to begin to weigh evidence, to ponder on the significance of facts, to cultivate the gift of historical thinking, which is better than historical learning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Justin McCarthy Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781330213001 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 370
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Excerpt from The Story of the People of England, Vol. 1: In the Nineteenth Century, 1800-1835 My purpose has been something different from this; my desire has been to describe the marvellous changes wrought by science and literature, by statesmen and philanthropists in the social life of England during the wonderful century which is now drawing to a close. My wish has been to make my readers acquainted with the men who helped to bring about those changes, as well as with the nature, extent, and influence of the changes themselves; and thus to tell the story of England's nineteenth century in such a manner as to secure it an easy way to the understanding, and a place in the memory of even my youngest readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: David Hume Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 2516
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This eBook edition of "The History of England" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The History of England is David Hume's great work on the history of England, which he wrote in while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh. It was published in six volumes. The History spanned "from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688" and went through over 100 editions. Contents: The Britons. The Romans. The Britons. The Saxons. The Heptarchy The Kingdom of Kent The Kingdom of Northumberland The Kingdom of East Anglia The Kingdom of Mercia The Kingdom of Essex. The Kingdom of Sussex. The Kingdom of Wessex. Egbert. Ethelwolf. Ethelbald and Ethelbert. Ethered Alfred. Edward the Elder. Athelstan. Edmund. Edred Edwy Edgar Edward the Martyr Ethelred Edmond Ironside Canute Harold Harefoot Hardicanute Edward the Confessor Harold William the Conqueror. Henry III. Edward I. Edward II. Edward III. Richard II. Henry IV Henry V. Henry VI. Edward IV. Edward V. And Richard III. Richard III. William Rufus. Henry I. Stephen. Henry II. Richard I. John. The Feudal and Anglo-Norman Government and Manners Henry Vii. Henry Viii. Edward Vi. Mary. Elizabeth. James I. Charles I. The Commonwealth Charles II. James II.
Author: Justin Mccarthy Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267167623 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 372
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Excerpt from The Story of the People of England, Vol. 1: In the Nineteenth Century, 1800-1835 The Younger Pith - Charles James Fox - The Disappoint ments of Peace - Religious Disabilities The Democracy - The King puts his foot down - The King's good points Death Of George III. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Peter Ackroyd Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1250013674 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 496
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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. 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: Alice Drayton Greenwood Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781330318331 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 407
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Excerpt from History of the People of England, Vol. 1 The editors and compilers of this series of history readers are quite alive to the fact that some apology is needed for putting forth yet another book to add to those which are already before the public, many of which are of a high order of historical and literary worth, and are written by competent scholars and experienced teachers. They are sensible that the only justification of their action is to be found in the series in question presenting some feature which is wanting in others and yet is essential to the completeness of a history text-book which aims at giving to children anything approaching to a rightly proportioned conception of the course of development of the nation to which they belong. The particular element which the writers believe to be lacking in the text-books already in existence, and have tried, up to the limit of their powers, to introduce into the present series, is the historical view of the work of the Church in the growth and development of the English nation. Text-books which in regard to the political development show the results of the assimilation of the most advanced thought and learning, are content to leave unconnected the crudest popular conceptions as to the work of religious institutions and religious beliefs on the shaping of events. Concise and elementary teaching must needs be, even in such a subject as History, in a degree dogmatic; it is the more necessary that the conclusions offered should be based as widely as possible, and that no aspect of the truth should be omitted in framing the considerations to be presented to the immature mind. The general trend of popular thought since Macaulay's day has never succeeded in throwing off the dominance of that brilliant writer, whose writings, Lord Acton asserts, "are a key to half the prejudices of our age." To Macaulay the Church was, one may almost say, an impertinence, as an institution which was in opposition to Whig views. It is a curious fact that this position has often been tacitly accepted by those who are, as individuals, as of course were many Whigs, devoted members of the Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Professor of History Justin McCarthy Publisher: Palala Press ISBN: 9781346738024 Category : Languages : en Pages : 368
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Author: Michael Wood Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141961155 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 417
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A VILLAGE AND ITS PEOPLE THROUGH THE WHOLE OF ENGLISH HISTORY The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. Bought in the thirteenth century by William de Merton, who founded Merton College, Oxford, it also lodges 750 years of village history. Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over fifteen centuries - from the moment that the Roman Emperor Honorius sent his famous letter in 410 advising the English to look to their own defences to the village as it is today. He builds on this unique archive, enlisting the help of Kibworth's inhabitants in a village-wide archaeological dig and the first complete DNA profile of an English village. The story of Kibworth is the story of England itself, a Who Do You Think You Are? for the entire nation. 'Better than any historian for decades, Wood brings home not just the ways in which buildings, landscapes and written texts may be read, but the sensual beauty of encounters with them' TLS
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