Posts Tagged ‘history’

The Pilgrimage of Grace by Geoffrey Moorhouse

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

This book is one of the definitive accounts of a troubled period in English history – a closely-interconnected series of northern rebellions starting in 1536 with the potential to topple the throne of Henry VIII. This event, coming as it did so soon after the Wars of the Roses, and at a period when some of the most significant shifts in English history were taking place, would doubtless have changed the destiny of the country significantly.

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A Book of Dartmoor by the Rev Sabine Baring-Gould

Friday, March 11th, 2011

Here’s just one among many reasons why I love my local library – because I can walk in and pull books like this one off the shelf. I’ve long had an interest in such works – the writings of Victorian antiquarians such as William Crossing who sought to document the life, landscape and ecology of Dartmoor.

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God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution – Christopher Hill

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

I’d had a bit of a rude awakening regarding the Civil War and the Restoration courtesy of my favourite book of 2007, An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears. This splendid historical thriller is set during the period in question – and made me realise how just little I actually knew about it. So off to consult the Googloracle and track down an authoritative biography of England’s most recent military dictator. This brought me to the feet of Christopher Hill who in 1970 wrote this ground-breaking biography.

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