Revolution

The History of England Volume IV

Peter Ackroyd

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04 September 2017

History; British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

Series: The History of England

Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory.

In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was - again - at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.

Late Stuart and Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state. The Bank of England was founded, as was the stock exchange, the Church of England was fully established as the guardian of the spiritual life of the nation and parliament became the sovereign body of the nation with responsibilities and duties far beyond those of the monarch. It was a revolutionary era in English letters, too, a time in which newspapers first flourished and the English novel was born.

It was an era in which coffee houses and playhouses boomed, gin flowed freely and in which shops, as we know them today, began to proliferate in our towns and villages. But it was also a time of extraordinary and unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly and irrevocably transformed from a country of blue skies and farmland to one of soot and steel and coal.

By: Peter Ackroyd
Imprint: Pan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main Market Ed.
Volume: 4
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 294g
ISBN: 9781509811472
ISBN 10: 1509811478
Series: The History of England
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 04 September 2017
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

** Section - i: List of illustrations* Chapter - 1: What do you think of predestination now?* Chapter - 2: A bull or a bear?* Chapter - 3: The idol of the age* Chapter - 4: Hay day* Chapter - 5: The prose of gold* Chapter - 6: Waiting for the day* Chapter - 7: The great Scriblerus* Chapter - 8: The Germans are coming!* Chapter - 9: Bubbles in the air* Chapter - 10: The invisible hand* Chapter - 11: Consuming passions* Chapter - 12: The What D'Ye Call It?* Chapter - 13: The dead ear* Chapter - 14: Mother Geneva* Chapter - 15: The pack of cards* Chapter - 16: What shall I do?* Chapter - 17: Do or die* Chapter - 18: The violists* Chapter - 19: A call for liberty* Chapter - 20: Here we are again!* Chapter - 21: The broad bottom* Chapter - 22: The magical machines* Chapter - 23: Having a tea party* Chapter - 24: The schoolboy* Chapter - 25: The steam machines* Chapter - 26: On a darkling plain* Chapter - 27: Fire and moonlight* Chapter - 28: The red bonnet* Chapter - 29: The mad kings* Chapter - 30: The beast and the whore* Chapter - 31: A Romantic tale* Chapter - 32: Pleasures of peace** Section - ii: Further reading* Index - iii: Index

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers, Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.

Reviews for Revolution: The History of England Volume IV

Ackroyd is a fascinating mix of a 19th-century narrative historian and modern social analyst. Elements of thisbook seem very old-fashioned and formal - in a good way. Yet the author eschews the detached third person preferred by stuffy professionals, favouring instead a more intimate you that brings the reader into the dark alleys of industrial towns to sniff the urine, vomit and suppurating sores of industrial England. Those perfect sentences are scattered throughout. -- Gerard DeGroot * The Times *