English Social History: A Survey Of Six Centuries Chaucer To Queen Victoria
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few works have shaped the understanding of English life across the centuries as profoundly as English Social History, a magisterial survey that sweeps from the age of Chaucer through to the reign of Queen Victoria. G. M. Trevelyan, former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and one of Britain's most distinguished historians, charts not the battles and monarchs of conventional history, but the everyday lives of ordinary men and women — their labour, leisure, customs, and communities — across six transformative centuries of English civilisation. Trevelyan's prose is luminous and accessible, combining scholarly rigour with the narrative grace of a natural storyteller, making this landmark work as readable today as when it was first published. He argues that true history is to be found not in political chambers alone, but in the fields, taverns, parishes, and parlours of England — a conviction that redefined the discipline of social history itself. Rich in anecdote, broad in scope, and alive with vivid detail, this volume remains an indispensable classic for anyone who wishes to understand the forces that forged the English character — and the question it quietly poses is whether that character has truly changed at all.
Author: G. M. Trevelyan
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Longmans, Green and Co.
Genre: British & Irish history
Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few works have shaped the understanding of English life across the centuries as profoundly as English Social History, a magisterial survey that sweeps from the age of Chaucer through to the reign of Queen Victoria. G. M. Trevelyan, former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and one of Britain's most distinguished historians, charts not the battles and monarchs of conventional history, but the everyday lives of ordinary men and women — their labour, leisure, customs, and communities — across six transformative centuries of English civilisation. Trevelyan's prose is luminous and accessible, combining scholarly rigour with the narrative grace of a natural storyteller, making this landmark work as readable today as when it was first published. He argues that true history is to be found not in political chambers alone, but in the fields, taverns, parishes, and parlours of England — a conviction that redefined the discipline of social history itself. Rich in anecdote, broad in scope, and alive with vivid detail, this volume remains an indispensable classic for anyone who wishes to understand the forces that forged the English character — and the question it quietly poses is whether that character has truly changed at all.