The food we ate, the clothes we wore, the punishments we endured, even the jokes we told are all found here, too. The first book in Peter Ackroyds history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion.In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of Englands prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place, he tells the familiar story of king succeeding king in rich prose, with profound insight and some surprising details. Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer. He is the only English king, after the time of the Normans, who has never been placed within a royal tomb, Peter Ackroyd writes in Foundation, his rambling, affectionate new history of. In it, Ackroyd takes us from Neolithic England, which we can only see in the most tantalising glimpses - a stirrup found in a grave, some seeds at the bottom of a bowl - to the long period of Roman rule from the Dark Ages when England was invaded by a ceaseless tide of Angles, Saxons and Jutes, to the twin glories of medieval England - its great churches and monasteries and its common law.

This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more than 15,000 years ago, to the death in 1509 of the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII.

He takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. In Foundation, acclaimed historian Peter Ackroyd tells the epic story of England itself. The first volume in a new six-part history of England from acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd. The first book in Peter Ackroyds history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion.In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of Englands prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. Print Foundation - The History of England: Volume I

Foundation by Peter Ackroyd