About the Author
Professor Sir Geoffrey Elton was fellow of Clare College, Cambridge since 1954 and between 1967 and 1983 was Professor of English Constitutional History. He was President of the Royal Historical Society between 1972 and 1976, of the Selden Society between 1983 and 1985 and of the Ecclesiastical History Society in 1983-84.
Features
* The first single-volume history of England and the English since G. N. Clark's in 1971.
* Written by one of the world's best known and most distinguished historians.
* Illustrated by maps, plus a full chronology and family trees.
* Over 12000 sold in hardback.