The English and their History

The English, Robert Tombs writes in his 'Prelude' to this landmark book, have acquired ancestors by legend, conquest and migration.

Here, in a single volume for the first time in ninety years, is a fresh, completely up-to-date account of the long history of an island and its peoples; of its conquerors, kings and queens; of the social, the political and the cultural; of the mythological and the legendary, and of the extraordinarily true.

This is the history of the English, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them.