The Description of England
The Description of England

Author: William Harrison

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780486282756

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Presents a portrait of daily life in Tudor England, including food and diet, laws, clothing, punishments for criminals, languages, lodging, and the appearance of the people.

Elizabethan England
Elizabethan England

Author: William Harrison

Publisher:

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1406857173

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Compiled from material taken from Harrison's "Description of England" which was produced as part of the publishing venture of a group of London stationers who produced Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (London 1577).

A Short History of England
A Short History of England

Author: Simon Jenkins

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2011-11-22

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1610391438

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The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar -- from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two World Wars. But to understand their full significance we need to know the whole story. A Short History of England sheds new light on all the key individuals and events in English history by bringing them together in an enlightening account of the country's birth, rise to global prominence, and then partial eclipse. Written with flair and authority by Guardian columnist and London Times former editor Simon Jenkins, this is the definitive narrative of how today's England came to be. Concise but comprehensive, with more than a hundred color illustrations, this beautiful single-volume history will be the standard work for years to come.

The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles
The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles

Author: Paulina Kewes

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 811

ISBN-13: 0199565759

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The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), the greatest of Elizabethan chronicles and a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays.

Icons of England
Icons of England

Author: Bill Bryson

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-04-07

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1409095665

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This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies. First published as a lavish colour coffeetable book, this new expanded paperback edition has double the original number of contributions from many celebrities including Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Eric Clapton, Bryan Ferry, Sebastian Faulks, Kate Adie, Kevin Spacey, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Richard Mabey , Simon Jenkins, John Sergeant, Benjamin Zephaniah, Joan Bakewell, Antony Beevor, Libby Purves, Jonathan Dimbleby, and many more: and a new preface by HRH Prince Charles.

England, England
England, England

Author: Julian Barnes

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2009-01-21

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 030755595X

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BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the internationally acclaimed bestselling author The Sense of an Ending comes a "wickedly funny” novel (The New York Times) about an idyllic land of make-believe in England that gets horribly and hilariously out of hand. Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visionary tycoon, Sir Jack Pitman, seeks to accomplish on the Isle of Wight, a "destination" where tourists can find replicas of Big Ben (half size), Princess Di's grave, and even Harrod's (conveniently located inside the tower of London). Martha Cochrane, hired as one of Sir Jack's resident "no-people," ably assists him in realizing his dream. But when things go awry, Martha develops her own vision of the perfect England. Julian Barnes delights us with a novel that is at once a philosophical inquiry, a burst of mischief, and a moving elegy about authenticity and nationality.