Foundation
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ancient civilizations British Isles
Angevins
Anglo-Saxon civilization
archaeological discoveries Britain
Author_Peter Ackroyd
British culture
British feudal system development
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common law origins
Dark Ages
England
English cultural heritage evolution
English monarchy
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everyday life medieval England
historical research
history
Hundred Years' War
Magna Carta
medieval
medieval church architecture
medieval society and culture
middle ages
Norman Conquest
Normans
Plantagenets
prehistoric settlements
Roman Britain exploration
Saxons
Tudors
Vikings
Wars of the Roses
Product details
- ISBN 9780330544283
- Weight: 366g
- Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 29 Mar 2012
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 15,000 years ago, to the death in 1509 of the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII. In Foundation, Ackroyd takes us from Neolithic England, which we can only see in the most tantalizing 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.
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers, Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.
