book series
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their pub ...
on
British history
The British Isles have witnessed intermittent periods of competition and cooperation between the people that occupy the various parts of Great Britain, the Isle of Man, Ireland, the Bailiwick of Guernsey, the Bailiwick of Jersey and ...
, published by
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.David Cannadine, who also contributed a volume himself. Collectively, the books in the series span the period 54 BC to 1990 and include:
* ''An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC-AD 409'' (2006) by David Mattingly
* ''Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070'' (2010) by
Robin Fleming
Robin Fleming is a medieval historian, professor of history at Boston College, and a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. She has written several books focusing on the people of Roman Britain and early medieval Britain, using both archaeological evidence and ...
* ''The Struggle for Mastery: Britain, 1066-1284'' (2003) by
David Carpenter
David Joseph Carpenter (born May 6, 1930), a.k.a. The Trailside Killer, is an American serial killer and serial rapist known for stalking and murdering a variety of individuals on hiking trails in state parks near San Francisco, California. He ...
* ''The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages'' (2005) by Miri Rubin
* ''New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603'' (2000) by
Susan Brigden
Susan Elizabeth Brigden, FRHistS, FBA (born 26 June 1951) is a historian and academic specialising in the English Renaissance and Reformation. She was Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College, b ...
* ''A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603-1714'' (1996) by
Mark Kishlansky
Mark Kishlansky (October 11, 1948 – May 19, 2015) was an American historian of seventeenth-century British politics. He was the Frank Baird, Jr. Professor of History at Harvard University.
Education and academic career
Kishlansky was born i ...
* ''A Wealth of Nations? Britain, 1707-1815'' by
Linda Colley
Dame Linda Jane Colley, (born 13 September 1949 in Chester, England) is an expert on British, imperial and global history from 1700. She is Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University and a long-term fellow in history at ...
narrative history
Narrative history is the practice of writing history in a story-based form. It tends to entail history-writing based on reconstructing series of short-term events, and ever since the influential work of Leopold von Ranke on professionalising histo ...
of Britain, intended to update the "
Whiggish
Whig history (or Whig historiography) is an approach to historiography that presents history as a journey from an oppressive and benighted past to a "glorious present". The present described is generally one with modern forms of liberal democracy ...
" approach of older studies. It was particularly intended to supersede the ''
Pelican History of England
The ''Pelican History of England'' is a book series on English history published under the mass-market Pelican Books imprint of Penguin Books between 1950 and 1965. It was subsequently revised and reprinted in numerous editions and the series is s ...
'' (1950–1965) which, though influential, was considered "dated". The series was intended to engage with "the fact of decline, political, imperial, military and economic" in British power. It was framed as "consciously British" (rather than English) and put particular "focus on Britain’s world position primarily with reference to the 'three circles' of Europe, the Empire and the United States".
See also
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New Oxford History of England
The ''New Oxford History of England'' is a book series on the history of the British Isles. It was commissioned in 1992 and produced eleven volumes by 2010, but as of September 2022, no more volumes. It is the successor to the '' Oxford History of ...