Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors: The History of England, Book 1

On this large greatest vendor in England, one among Britain’s hottest and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the start of the nation.

Peter Ackroyd, whose work has at all times been underpinned by a profound curiosity in and understanding of England’s historical past, now tells the epic story of England itself.

In Basis the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England’s prehistory to the demise of the primary Tudor king, Henry VII, in 1509. He guides us from the constructing of Stonehenge to the founding of the 2 nice glories of medieval England: widespread regulation and the cathedrals. He reveals us glimpses of the nation’s most distant previous – a Neolithic stirrup present in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor home – and describes in wealthy prose the successive waves of invaders who made England English regardless of being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon, or Norman French.

Together with his extraordinary talent for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling element, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, civil strife, and international wars. However he additionally offers us a vivid sense of how England’s early folks lived: the houses they constructed, the garments they wore, the meals they ate, even the jokes they instructed. All are introduced vividly to life by means of the narrative mastery of one among Britain’s best writers.