Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river the Thames Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled more than 15000 years ago to the death in 1509 of the first Tudor monarch Henry VII. In it Ackroyd takes us from Neolithic England which we can only see in the most tantalising glimpses a stirrup found in a grave some seeds at the bottom of a bowl to the long period of Roman rule; from the Dark Ages when England was invaded by a ceaseless tide of Angles Saxons and Jutes to the twin glories of medieval England its great churches and monasteries and its common law. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place he tells the familiar story of king succeeding king in rich prose with profound insight and some surprising details. The food we ate the clothes we wore the punishments we endured even the jokes we told are all found here too.
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