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Robert Tombss momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining national institutions can be traced back to the earliest years of their history.
The English have come a long way from those first precarious days of invasion and conquest, with many spectacular changes of fortune. Their political, economic and cultural contacts have left traces for good and ill across the world. This book describes their history and its meanings from their beginnings in the monasteries of Northumbria and the wetlands of Wessex to the cosmopolitan energy of todays England. Robert Tombs draws out important threads running through the story, including participatory government, language, law, religion, the land and the sea, and ever-changing relations with other peoples. Not the least of these connections are the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. These diverse and sometimes conflicting understandings are an inherent part of their identity.
Rather to their surprise, as ties within the United Kingdom loosen, the English are suddenly embarking on a new chapter. The English and Their History, the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century, and which incorporates a wealth of recent scholarship, presents a challenging modern account of this immense and continuing story, bringing out the strength and resilience of English government, the deep patterns of division and also the persistent capacity to come together in the face of danger
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ALSO BY ROBERT TOMBS
That Sweet Enemy: The French and British from the Sun King to the Present (with Isabelle Tombs)
The Paris Commune, 1871
France, 18141914
Nationhood and Nationalism Before the Great War
Thiers, 17971877: A Political Life (with J. P. T. Bury)
The War Against Paris, 1871
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright 2014 by Robert Tombs
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd., London, in 2014.
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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tombs, Robert, author.
The English and their history / by Robert Tombs.
pages cm
This is a Borzoi Book.
ISBN 9781101874769 (hardback); ISBN 9781101874776 (eBook)
1. Great BritainHistory. I. Title.
DA 30. T 656 2015
942dc23
2014048390
Cover image: C Squared Studios / Photodisc / Getty Images
Cover design by Megan Wilson
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The Birth of a Nation
The English Unleashed
Shakespeare and Lesser Historians
The Great Divide, c.1500c.1700
Making a New World, c.1660c.1815
The English Century
The New Dark Age, 19141945
An Age of Decline?
. Opening of Book I of Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English Church and People, first half of ninth century. The British Library, London (Cotton Tiberius C. II, f.5v). Photo: British Library Board. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images.
. The Alfred Jewel, ninth century. Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
. Noah and his family leaving the Ark, from the Aelfric Pentateuch, 102550. British Library, London (Cott Claud B IV f.15v). Photo: British Library Board. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images.
. Dover Castle. Photo: Alamy.
. Durham Cathedral. Photo: Alamy.
. Detail from a twelfth-century psalter showing a harvesting scene. Reproduced by permission of the Master and Fellows of St. Johns College, Cambridge (MS K.30, f.4v).
. Ridge and furrow patterns in a field in Gloucestershire. Photo: Alamy.
. The barley barn at Cressing Temple, Essex, twelfth century. Photo: Alamy.
. Detail of an initial C depicting Edward III with religious and laymen from Nova Statuta, 148889. Photo: The British Library Board (Hargrave 274, f.50).
. Illustration of Henry II and Thomas Becket, from Peter de Langtoft, The Chronicle of England, c.130727. British Library, London (Royal 20 A.II, f.7v). Photo: British Library Board. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images.
. The Execution of Hugh Despenser, from Froissarts Chronicle, French School, late fifteenth century. Bibliothque Nationale, Paris (Ms Fr 2643 fol.11). Photo: Bridgeman Images.
William Walworth. The Fishmongers Hall, London. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
. Skull known as Towton 25. Photo: BARC, Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford.
. Chaucer reading to Richard II, detail from an illustrated folio of Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, c.1415. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (MS 61, fol 1v). Reproduced by permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
. The siege of Castillion sur Dordogne, from Froissarts Chronicle, French School, late fifteenth century. British Library, London (Royal 20 C. IX, f.263). Photo: British Library Board. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images.
Chapel, Cambridge. Photo: Alamy.
. Title page to the Hagiographia of the Great Bible, 1539. St. Johns College, Cambridge (Bb.8.30). Reproduced by permission of the Master and Fellows of St. Johns College, Cambridge.
. Defaced panel depicting the Virgin and Child, from Great Snoring church, Norfolk. Photo: Alamy.
. The burning of Thomas Cranmer, illustration from John Foxes Book of Martyrs, 1563.
. George Gower (attr.), the Armada portrait of Elizabeth I, c.1588. Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
. Hardwick Hall. Photo: Alamy.
. Langley Chapel, Shropshire. Photo: English Heritage Photo Library / Bridgeman Images.
. Peterhouse Chapel, Cambridge. Photo: Jean-Luc Benazet.
. Frontispiece from Eikon Basilike: The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings, by King Charles I of England, 1648. Photo: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.
. John Rogers Herbert, The Assertion of Liberty of Conscience by the Independents of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, 1644. Photo: Palace of Westminster Collection.
. Isaac Fuller, The Restoration of Charles II at Whitehall, c.1660. Private collection. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
. Claude de Jongh, The Thames at Westminster Stairs, 1631 or 1637. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
. Canaletto, The River Thames with St. Pauls Cathedral on Lord Mayors Day, c.1746. The Lobkowicz Collections, Prague Castle. Photo: akg-images.
. Sir Godfrey Kneller, portrait of William III, c.1700. Private collection. Photo: Christies Images / Bridgeman Images.
. Studio of Jean-Baptiste van Loo, portrait of Robert Walpole, c.1740. Photo: UK Government Art Collection.
. Karl Anton Hickel, William Pitt addressing the House of Commons, 179395. National Portrait Gallery, London. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
. Johann Zoffany, John Cuff and his Assistant, c.1772. Royal Collection Trust Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2014. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
. John Harrisons marine timekeeper H1, 173035. Photo: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Ministry of Defence Art Collection.
. English School, View of Bristol Docks and Quay, c.1760. Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
. James Sharples, The Forge, 1847. Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
. Thomas Malton, Halls Library at Margate, 1789. Private collection. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
. William Bigg, Poor Old Womans Comfort
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