The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar—-from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two w

How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide. The Shortest History books deliver thou

First published in 2012. This work of introduction is designed to escort the reader through some six centuries of English literature. It begins in the fourteent