Hudson's English History: A Compendium Book

Eight centuries of English history served up by the quirky mind of Roger Hudson, via fascinating perorations, lists to linger over, and explicatory diagrams.Flitting happily from period to period, you can alight on a note on the royal hounds and huntsmen in 1136, be equipped to discuss siege warfare (using the correct vocabulary), or choose a destination for a pilgrimage. The working methods of the Exchequer are usefully explained, and you are duly warned as to what behavior would have landed you in a London pillory in 1419. The intricacies of the Tudor Court are plotted, the Anglo-Scottish border clans mapped, and the Armada Fleets anatomized. Seventeenth-century banquet menus, including boiled teats and seagulls, are pored over and Charles II?s bastards catalogued. There are 19th-century "rich lists," a breakdown of life below stairs in a stately home, and ever so much more.Read More