The English

(This ebook does not include illustrations.)

This social history records the daily life of the English people from the time of the Norman Conquest to our own.

Based on diaries, letters, memoirs, official reports, the works of modern social historians and the literature of every period, it traces the development of English society over 900 years.

The chapters range over life in the castles, palaces and monasteries, in the homes of rich merchants and in the hovels of peasants, describing the work and play of the inhabitants, their clothes, food and possesions, their servants and animals, their pleasures and suffering, their beliefs and attitudes, their schools, fairs, shops and markets, hospitals and prisons, theatres and churches, farms and factories, taverns and brothels covering every aspect of medieval and modern life.

Reviews

‘Perhaps the most gifted popular historian we have’ Times Literary Supplement

‘A pearl of biographers’ New Statesman

About the author

Described by Professor Sir John Plumb as a ‘writer of the highest ability’ & by the New Statesman as ‘a pearl of biographers’, Christopher Hibbert is our leading popular historian whose works reflect meticulous scholarship. His books also include THE DESTRUCTION OF LORD RAGLAN, THE COURT AT WINDSOR, LONDON and ROME, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF MEDICI.