A History of the English Speaking Peoples

Published between 1956 and 1958, this four-volume history follows the political development of Britain and of the English-speaking settlements overseas from Roman Britain to the death of Queen Victoria. The first volume runs through the Anglo-Saxons, the Norman Conquest, and the medieval realm. The second treats the Tudors, the Civil Wars, and the planting of colonies in America. The third covers the eighteenth-century revolutions and the struggle with France. The fourth follows the United States and Britain through the nineteenth century. The emphasis is on constitution, war, and parliamentary politics rather than on social history.

Bound in dark red buckram with a design in blue and gold by David Eccles. Dark red four-volume slipcase with a sepia photograph on the front panel.