Author: William MaitlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
The History and Survey of London from Its Foundation to the Present Time: in Two Volumes
Author: William MaitlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
History of Edinburgh from Its Foundation to the Present Time. In 9 Books
Author: William MaitlandFoundation
Author: Peter AckroydPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250013674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
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.
The History of the Royal Academy of Arts from Its Foundation in 1768 to the Present Time
Author: William SandbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists, British
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
History of Scotland to the Present Time
Author: Peter Hume BrownPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Cambridge History of English Litterature
Author: The Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
A Survey of London
Author: John StowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The History of Merchant-Taylors' School, from Its Foundation to the Present Time
Author: Harry Bristow WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
The History of the Honourable Artillery Company
Author: George Alfred RaikesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description