The Seven Ages of Britain : From the coming of the Romans to the third millennium
List price: US$30.78
Currently unavailable
Description
Hywel Williams tells the British story in its chronological, political and geographical entirety, from the Roman invasion of Britannia in the first century AD to the fast-changing, multi-ethnic Britain of the second decade of the third millennium, and from the building of Hadrian's Wall to the Scottish independence referendum of 2014.
Narrated in lucid and richly informative prose, and amplified by sixty capsule biographies of Great Britons from Bede to Brunel and from Dickens to Darwin, The Seven Ages of Britain is a sweeping and enthralling but intellectually serious journey across two millennia of British history. It is the perfect popular introduction to the key events and turning-points of our nation's past. As such it belongs on the bookshelf of any reader with a curiosity about our island's story.
show more
Narrated in lucid and richly informative prose, and amplified by sixty capsule biographies of Great Britons from Bede to Brunel and from Dickens to Darwin, The Seven Ages of Britain is a sweeping and enthralling but intellectually serious journey across two millennia of British history. It is the perfect popular introduction to the key events and turning-points of our nation's past. As such it belongs on the bookshelf of any reader with a curiosity about our island's story.
show more
Product details
- Hardback | 512 pages
- 153 x 234 x 47mm | 1,072g
- 01 Mar 2019
- Head of Zeus
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 1x8pp colour illustrations
- 1784080837
- 9781784080839
Review quote
PRAISE FOR HYWEL WILLIAMS:
'This is a fascinating way to look at world history' Good Reads, on Days That Changed the World.
'A most interesting and worthwhile book' Val Barnes, on Days That Changed the World.
'Excellent and thought-provoking' TLS, on Emperor of the West.
show more
'This is a fascinating way to look at world history' Good Reads, on Days That Changed the World.
'A most interesting and worthwhile book' Val Barnes, on Days That Changed the World.
'Excellent and thought-provoking' TLS, on Emperor of the West.
show more
About Hywel Williams
Hywel Williams is a journalist and historian. Among his many books are Cassell's Chronology of World History, Fifty Days that Changed the World, Britain's Power Elites, Emperor of the West and The Age of Chivalry.
show more
show more
