London England: Viking. Fine/Near Fine. 2010. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 9780670919031 Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. The Story of England. A Village and Its People Through the Whole of English History. In this tale of epic sweep and mesmerizing detail, the author tells the story of an English community, from the Romas till today, exploring the national narrative through the eyes of one small place. That place is Kibworth, a village in Leicestershire, at the very centre of England. Its story is the story of departing Romans, Saxon andViking immigrants, and northern conquerrors; of the Great Famine and the Black Death; of religion and political conflicts, and the Industrial Revolution; of Empire and two world wars. All made their impact on this small community. And through it all, with their tenacity and tolerance, and their ways of organizing society, they passedf down their culyured DNA to modern English people. Using a uniquely rich documentary archive, as well as recent archaeological discoveries, tax rolls, photographs and diaries, this book unfold a tale of real people, which at times reaches the intimacy of a novel. Illustrated. 440 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .

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Now a major PBS miniseries The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very center of England. It has an ancient church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial—and many centuries of recorded history. It has experienced departing Romans, Saxon, and Viking immigrants, Norman conquerors; the Black Death, the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution; and its people have gone off to the Empire and to fight in two world wars. Enlisting the villagers themselves—who dug test pits in their gardens in search of Roman pottery, were DNA tested to examine their Viking origins and offered up their family collections of photos and documents—and using the archives of the village housed at Merton College Oxford (an archive unique in western Europe going back seven hundred years), Michael Wood tells the incredible story of the village over two thousand years. This is an account of England told not from the top but from the bottom—a story of Anglo-Saxon peasants, medieval reeves, Tudor vicars, Victorian frame-work knitters and First World War soldiers. This is a people's history of England, told through the history of one small community.

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Bookseller: thelondonbookworm.com (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 108977
Title: The Story of England.
Author: Michael Wood
Format/Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Fine/Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0670919039
ISBN 13: 9780670919031
Publisher: Viking
Place of Publication: London England
Date Published: 2010
Keywords: Non, Fiction, Hiastory, The, Story, of, England, Village, People, Through, the, Whole, English, History, Kibworth, Leicestershire, TV, Tie-In, 9780670919031

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