The ''Pelican History of England'' is a

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English history England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated.; "Earliest footprints outside Africa discovered in Norfolk" (2014). BBC News. Retrieved 7 February ...

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Penguin Books Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.G. M. Trevelyan George Macaulay Trevelyan (16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962) was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1898 to 1903. He then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author. He returned to the ...

and the contributors to the series were strongly influenced by the "Whig" view of history which Trevelyan shared. The series comprised: *''Roman Britain'' (1955), by

Ian Richmond Sir Ian Archibald Richmond, (10 May 1902 – 5 October 1965) was a British archaeologist and academic. He was Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at the University of Oxford. In addition, he was Director of the British School at Ro ...

*''The Beginnings of English Society'' (1952), by

Dorothy Whitelock Dorothy Whitelock, (11 November 1901 – 14 August 1982) was an English historian. From 1957 to 1969, she was the Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge. Her best-known work is '' English Historica ...

*''English Society in the Early Middle Ages'' (1951), by

Doris Mary Stenton Doris Mary Stenton, Lady Stenton, (1894–1971) was an English historian of the Middle Ages. Life Born Doris Mary Parsons, she was the daughter of John Parsons and his wife Amelia Wadhams. She was their only child and was born in Reading, Berk ...

*''England in the Late Middle Ages'' (1952), by A.R. Myers *''Tudor England'' (1950), by Stanley Bindoff *''England in the Seventeenth Century'' (1952), by

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. Ashley's book was superseded by J.P. Kenyon's ''Stuart England'' (1978) *''England in the Eighteenth Century'' (1950), by J.H. Plumb *''England in the Nineteenth Century'' (1950), by David Thomson *''England in the Twentieth Century'' (1965), by David Thomson In many of the studies, ''England'' was often substituted for ''Britain'' or the ''United Kingdom'' to produce a cohesive view of the past. The '' Penguin History of Britain'', published in nine volumes over 1996–2018, is intended to supersede the "now dated" series.

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