Britannia: 100 Documents that Shaped a Nation

Britannia: 100 Documents That Shaped a Nation by Graham Stewart (Hardback, 2010)

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I have spent quite a bit of time thinking about the Elizabethan Poor Law and debating whether its creation might not provide an alternative end date for the Middle Ages, marking as it does a new departure in how society thinks about itself as opposed to using the reasonable parameters of the Battle of Hastings to Henry VIII's split from Rome and the Enclosures that followed his split from Rome in The dearth of surviving information from the Dark Ages as in nothing known rather than nasty, brutish and quite long was evoked very clearly and included the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which I am reading currently!

And there is more! While checking my dates re the Enclosures I discovered that Thomas Cromwell - the Arch Villain taking that to mean, presumably, chief villain as opposed to the villain who was smirking archly over knowing more than the other fellow - though on reflection it could be either! He made up for it, though, by removing the right of Sanctuary in ! Well, I could obviously whiffle on for hours here - finis! Nov 22, Chris Steeden rated it really liked it.

Graham Stewart attempts to 'tell the history of Britain through its seminal documents'. In this case of them. This really is a great book 4.

I thoroughly enjoyed it and learnt a lot. You get 3 or 4 pages for each document.

There are some plates and also extracts from the documents. It ranges from the 1st Century AD up to I tried to read a document-a-day whilst on my lunch break. There is some history around each document such as why the d Graham Stewart attempts to 'tell the history of Britain through its seminal documents'.

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There is some history around each document such as why the document came about, what is in the document and how things progressed or not from then. Nov 12, Penny rated it it was ok Shelves: I'll be honest, if you want to start researching a basic context in which some of these documents were created, then this book is ok. There could have been more images as the authour seems to relie on the reader having already seen the documents that he is writing about.

Which unless you have unlimited access to the stores of the British library, it is not likly that you know what he is talking about.

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Not great, but a good effort. Aug 08, Alwin rated it it was ok Shelves: I was expecting facsimiles of the documents, or at the least, transcriptions. Dec 06, Vasuki Thillainadarajah rated it it was amazing. Excellent perspective on what pen, parchment and quill can accomplish. A must read for the history nut in your family. Hilary Chan rated it really liked it Dec 14, Guy rated it liked it Aug 29, Robert Hepple rated it really liked it Nov 26, Juan rated it really liked it Jun 05, Arthur rated it really liked it Dec 06, Shaw rated it liked it Apr 15, Philip Cook rated it it was amazing May 15, Emily Cragg rated it it was amazing Jul 20, Tim rated it liked it Sep 03, BZ George rated it it was ok Mar 18, Sean Gunning rated it liked it Sep 13, Michael Crom rated it really liked it Apr 23, Stuart Phillips rated it really liked it Mar 01, Dec 27, Alex Marriott rated it liked it.

A brisk and easy inspiration into further reading on a wide range of British history. Lauren Skabar rated it really liked it Jun 07, Alberta Ross rated it liked it Oct 23, Malcolm rated it it was amazing Jun 24, Jimmy Kiteley marked it as to-read Feb 24, Mark is currently reading it Jun 19, Ireland In The 20th Century. The Penguin History of Britain.

Britannia: 100 Documents that Shaped a Nation

A Short History of Ireland. Three Victories and a Defeat. A Short History of the Irish Revolution, to A Life From Beginning to End. George V Penguin Monarchs. A Dictionary of British History. Ireland Within the Union New History of England. The Battle for Ireland. Oliver Cromwell Penguin Monarchs.

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A Short History of Ireland, The English Wars and Republic, A History of the British Isles. William Pitt the Younger. The Age of Improvement, The English Revolution, The Early Stuarts and the English Revolution A Workers' Guide to Ireland.

The Age of Oligarchy. Britain in the Age of the French Revolution. Explaining Britain and Her Empire: Earl Bathurst and British Empire. England Without a King The Oxford Companion to British History.

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