The Story of England

Michael Wood

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Viking
12 September 2011

History; British & Irish history; History: earliest times to present day

A Who Do You Think You Are? for the nation of England itself

The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has an ancient church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. It has experienced departing Romans, Saxon and Viking immigrants, Norman conquerors; the Black Death, the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution; and its people have gone off to the Empire and to fight in two world wars.

Enlisting the villagers themselves - who dug test pits in their gardens in search of Roman pottery, were DNA tested to examine their Viking origins and offered up their family collections of photos and documents - and using the archives of the village housed at Merton College Oxford (an archive unique in western Europe going back 700 years), Michael Wood tells the incredible story of the village over 2000 years.

This is an account of England told not from the top but from the bottom - a story of Anglo-Saxon peasants, medieval reeves, Tudor vicars, Victorian frame-work knitters and First World War soldiers. This is a people's history of England, told through the history of one small community.

By: Michael Wood
Imprint: Viking
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 354g
ISBN: 9780670919048
ISBN 10: 0670919047
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 12 September 2011
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Michael Wood was born and educated in Manchester, and studied Modern History and later Anglo-Saxon History at Oxford. He has made over 100 tv films, and written four number-one bestselling books including In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great and The Story of India. He lives in Hampstead, north London, with his wife and two daughters.

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The Story of England

Michael Wood

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