The English and Their History

Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist

The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history of a people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in existence. 
 
Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, Tombs sheds light on the strength and resilience of English governance, the deep patterns of division among the people who have populated the British Isles, the persistent capacity of the English to come together in the face of danger, and not the least the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. Momentous and definitive, The English and Their History is the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century.

• Great Tales from English History: A Treasury of True Stories about the Extraordinary People -- Knights and Knaves, Rebels and Heroes, Queens and Commoners -- Who Made Britain Great
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
• Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
• The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History
• Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation
• The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
• God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars
• Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
• A Short History of England: The Glorious Story of a Rowdy Nation
• 1688: The First Modern Revolution (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)