The Shortest History of England

With the British Empire gone, Brexit looming and the break-up of the United Kingdom a possibility, there's no better time to discover the true history of England. In the latest addition to the acclaimed Shortest History series, James Hawes demonstrates that the whole sweep of a national story can be captured in a pacy narrative packed with maps and graphics, throwing striking new light on the present day.A gallop through England's past shows that it is shot through with ancient fault lines, locked into European history and overlaid with that most English of factors- class. The world's most successful colonial culture has been rife with tension and challenge, from the Roman invasion through the Britons, Anglo-Saxons and Danes; to the Norman Conquest, the Anglo-French Empire and the Reformation; to the Empire and the wars of the twentieth century; and up to the question-filled present.