The bestselling definitive concise account of our remarkable past - now updated
Simon Jenkins is the author of the bestselling England's Thousand Best Churches and England's Thousand Best Houses, the former editor of The Times and Evening Standard and a columnist for the Guardian. He is also chairman of the National Trust.
A lucid and handsomely illustrated narrative, from the Saxon dawn
of England to the Cameron Government
*The Times*
Full of stand-out facts ... Absolutely fascinating ... I've learnt
an awful lot
*Richard Bacon, BBC Radio 2*
Let Jenkins sweep you through England's history, painting a vivid
picture of this country's green and pleasant land
*City AM*
Where Jenkins excels is in his very journalistic approach ... The
historical events are joined up, and work as narrative
*Time Out*
Immediately accessible
*Prospect*
This is traditional, kings-and-things, great-men history with all
its dates and famous quotations in place ... it's jolly good ...
Jenkins has a newspaper columnist's aphoristic verve ... judgements
are crisp
*Spectator*
Entertaining
*Sunday Times*
Full of good writing and lively anecdotes ... worth perusing for
pleasure and food for thought
*New Statesman*
A characteristically bold, wry, fluent, combative gallop through
English history
*Max Hastings*
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