Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and
violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama's unapologetically
personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the
changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our
loyalties. What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our
allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community
lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith?
What is Britain - one country or many? Has British history unfolded
'at the edge of the world' or right at the heart of it? Schama
delivers these themes in a form that is at once traditional and
excitingly fresh. The great and the wicked are here - Becket and
Thomas Cromwell, Robert the Bruce and Anne Boleyn - but so are
countless more ordinary lives: an Irish monk waiting for the plague
to kill him in his cell at Kilkenny; a small boy running through
the streets of London to catch a glimpse of Elizabeth I. The first
in a series, this volume paints a rich and vivid portrait of the
life of the British people and their nation.
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