A Short History of the English People

First published in 1874, this history of England is written as an account of the people rather than of kings and battles. Green moves from the Anglo-Saxon settlements through the medieval church and towns, the Reformation, the Civil Wars, and the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reforms, giving more space to language, religion, industry, and parliamentary habit than to campaigns. He treats constitutional change as the outcome of social development-peasants' revolt, printing, poor law, Methodism-rather than as a sequence of royal biographies. The book is a single-volume narrative from the early English to Green's own Victorian present.

Bound in dark green buckram with a cover design of decorative rules in gold by Malcolm Harvey Young. Pale brown endleaves. Dark brown slipcase.