I realized that I have no sense of English history. I mean I know a lot about this and that, but I don’t have any over-arching timeline that ties the things I know together or gives a means of setting English history against American or Continental history. I read this book to try to fix that problem.
It’s simple, fast read, but useful and unpretentious too.
And I enjoyed it. Always a plus.
Dates I noted:
Roman Conquest (43 BCE-450 CE)
Norman Conquest (1066) Tudors (1485-1603)
Stuarts:
Posted March 14, 2012
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