A History of England


A History of England is a series of reprints of twelve classic, magisterial volumes of different periods of English history, together constituting a continuous history from ancient Roman times to the end of the 20th century. The volumes were selected by, and under the general editorship of, British historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, and published by the Folio Society.
Fernandez-Armesto made his choices on the basis of “variety” and from among historians “eminent in their day and influential since”. They are “not meant to be consistent or even compatible”, but are all “likely to endure”.

The twelve volumes

1. A History of England, Volume I: Britannia, a History of Roman Britain by Sheppard Frere ; 431 pages
2. A History of England, Volume II: Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Hunter Blair ; Introduction by Simon Keynes; 364 pages
3. A History of England, Volume III: Early Medieval England by M.T. Clanchy ; 452 pages
4. A History of England, Volume IV: England in the Later Middle Ages by M.H. Keen ; 534 pages
5. A History of England, Volume V: England Under the Tudors by G.R. Elton ; 518 pages
6. A History of England, Volume VI: England Under the Stuarts by George Macaulay Trevelyan ; 503 pages
7. A History of England, Volume VII: England in the Eighteenth Century by Roy Porter ; 528 pages
8. A History of England, Volume VIII: England in the Age of Improvement 1783-1867 by Asa Briggs ; 498 pages
9. A History of England, Volume IX: Victorian England by G.M. Young ; 542 pages
10. A History of England: Volume X: Edwardian England by Elie Halevy ; 535 pages
11. A History of England, Volume XI: England 1914-1945 by A.J.P. Taylor ; ??? pages
12. A History of England, Volume XII: England 1945-2000 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto ; Foreword by Roy Jenkins; 623 pages