Download or read book History of Britain and Ireland written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient bloody battles and colonial conquests to the Industrial Revolution and Beatlemania, this visual guide leads you through major moments in British and Irish history. Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that shaped British and Irish history, from the Stone Age to the present day. Combining over 700 photographs, maps, and illustrations with accessible text, History of Britain and Ireland is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to learn more about the British Isles. Spanning six distinct periods of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish history, the book tells you how Britain transformed with Norman rule, fought two World Wars in the 20th century, and finally came to terms with a new status in a fast-changing economy. This comprehensive volume places key figures – from Alfred the Great to Winston Churchill – and major events – from Caesar's invasion to the Battle of the Somme – in their wider context. This makes it easier than ever before to learn how certain charismatic leaders, political factions, and specific events influenced Britain and Ireland's development through the Age of Empires and into the modern era. Beautifully illustrated, History of Britain and Ireland is sure to delight history buffs of all ages.
Download or read book A Picture History of Britain written by Clarke Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Images of Britain written by Ann Stonehouse and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best guide to the country, packed with full-color photographs of the highest caliber This magnificent collection of photographs captures not only Britain's splendid natural beauty, but the very essence of the land—its people, its history, its architecture, and its customs. Stunning pictures transport readers on a journey county by county though England, Scotland, and Wales, with extended captions that bring each image to life. From cottages to cathedrals, from palaces to promenades, and from Stonehenge to the works of modern British sculptors, this is a stunning photographic celebration of Britain's glorious past and thriving present.
Download or read book The Oxford History of Britain written by Kenneth O. Morgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century. The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Encompassing political, social, economic, and cultural developments throughout the British Isles, the dramatic narrative is taken up in turn by ten leading historians who offer the fruits of the best modern scholarship to the general reader in an authoritative form. A vivid, sometimes surprising picture emerges of a continuous turmoil of change in every period, and the wider social context of political and economic tension is made clear. But consensus, no less than conflict, is a part of the story: in focusing on elements of continuity down the centuries, the authors bring out that special awareness of identity which has been such a distinctive feature of British society. By relating both these factors in the British experience, and by exploring the many ways in which Britain has shaped and been shaped by contact with Europe and the wider world, this landmark work brings the reader face to face with the past, and the foundations of modern British society. This updated new edition (by the original editor) adds great richness by taking the story down from the economic crisis of 2008 to the conflict over Europe at the present day.
Download or read book A Radical History Of Britain written by Edward Vallance and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study, Edward Vallance traces a national tendency towards revolution, irreverence and reform wherever it surfaces and in all its variety. He unveils the British people who fought and died for religious freedom, universal suffrage, justice and liberty - and shows why, now more than ever, their heroic achievements must be celebrated. Beginning with Magna Carta, Vallance subjects the touchstones of British radicalism to rigorous scrutiny. He evokes the figureheads of radical action, real and mythic - Robin Hood and Captain Swing, Wat Tyler, Ned Ludd, Thomas Paine and Emmeline Pankhurst - and the popular movements that bore them. Lollards and Levellers, Diggers, Ranters and Chartists, each has its membership, principles and objectives revealed.
Download or read book Foundation written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book See Inside History of Britain written by Rob Lloyd Jones and published by Usborne Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lift-the-flap book for older children covers life in Britain from Anglo-Saxon invasions to the 21st century.
Download or read book Aerofilms written by James Crawford and published by Historic England Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aerofilms company recorded one of the most tumultuous periods of British history. This gloriously illustrated book draws on thousands of aerial photographs to present a vivid picture of a nation in the first half of the twentieth century.
Download or read book An Illustrated History of Britain written by David McDowall and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Britain written by Jeremy Black and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey through the events of the postwar years that “makes the outcome of Britain’s Brexit referendum much easier to comprehend” (Julian Lewis, member of Parliament). In 2016, Britain stunned itself and the world by voting to pull out of the European Union, leaving financial markets reeling and global politicians and citizens in shock. But was Brexit really a surprise, or are there clues in Britain’s history that pointed to this moment? In A History of Britain: 1945 to Brexit, award-winning historian Jeremy Black reexamines modern British history, considering the social changes, economic strains, and cultural and political upheavals that brought Britain to Brexit. This sweeping and engaging book traces Britain’s path through the destruction left behind by World War II, Thatcherism, the threats of the IRA, the Scottish referendum, and on to the impact of waves of immigrants from the European Union. Along the way, Black overturns many conventional interpretations of significant historical events, provides context for current developments, and encourages the reader to question why we think the way we do about Britain’s past.
Download or read book A Picture History of Britain Fourth Edition written by Clarke HUTTON and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Britain in Maps written by Philip Parker and published by Times Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 maps give a visual representation of the history of Britain. From Mappa Mundi to modern election maps, UK has evolved rapidly, along with the ways in which it has been mapped
Download or read book An Utterly Impartial History of Britain Or 2000 Years of Upper class Idiots in Charge written by John O'Farrell and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at school. Back then -~The Origins of the Industrial Revolution' somehow seemed less compelling than the chance to test the bold claim on Timothy Johnson's -~Shatterproof' ruler.But here at last is a chance to have a good laugh and learn all that stuff you feel you really ought to know by now... In this -~Horrible History for Grown Ups' you can read how Anglo-Saxon liberals struggled to be positive about immigration; -~Look I think we have to try and respect the religious customs of our new Viking friends -" oi, he's nicked my bloody ox!'Discover how England's peculiar class system was established by some snobby French nobles whose posh descendents still have wine cellars and second homes in the Dordogne today. And explore the complex socio-economic reasons why Britain's kings were the first in Europe to be brought to heel; (because the Stuarts were such a useless bunch of untalented, incompetent, arrogant, upper-class thickoes that Parliament didn't have much choice.) A book about then that is also incisive and illuminating about now, -~2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge', is an hilarious, informative and cantankerous journey through Britain' fascinating and bizarre history.As entertaining as a witch burning, and a lot more laughs.
Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain written by Kenneth O. Morgan and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the arrival of the Roman legions to the present day, this superbly illustrated volume tells the enthralling story of Britain and her people over two thousand years. 200+ b & w illustrations. of color plates.
Download or read book We Danced All Night written by Martin Pugh and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished historian Martin Pugh offers a colourful and controversial revisionist history of Britain in the 1920s-30s.
Download or read book A Picture History of Britain written by Clarke Hutton (illustrator) and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pictorial History of England Being a History of the People as Well as a History of the Kingdom written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
