Great Tales from English History: Volume II
CD Edition
by Robert Lacey
narrated by the author
Genre: History
Age Group: Adult
Book Reference: DIR1674
ISBN: 978 1 4074 7709 1
Duration: 6h (approx.) on 5 CDs
Publication Date: April 2008
Synopsis
In this second volume of short essays, renowned historian Robert Lacey opens with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the flowering of the modern English language in the final years of the 14th century and ends with the Glorious Revolution of 1688-9, when Parliament secured control over the Crown. Along the way we hear about Dick Whittington and his cat, the origin of the V sign at Agincourt, The Wars of the Roses and all the pivotal events which have fashioned a nation.
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