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Hodder Stoughton History Hit Story of England Making of a Nation.
Hodder Stoughton History Hit Story of England Making of a Nation ABISBOOK Hodder Stoughton.
384 pages, Hardcover
Published September 5, 2024
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August 26, 2025
Started off well, and completely went off the rails by William and Mary becoming joint monarchs.
I realize it was a book to appeal to a larger audience who (unlike me) don’t know history or details, but I always enjoy
History Hit, Dan, and his work. Thought they really lost the plot after they decided after perfectly good summarizing the start thru Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, to Alfred and the Vikings, The conquest, Henry II, Edward I, III, the Wars of the Roses, and most of medieval period, they jumped fine into Tudor and then Stuart, as well as the English Civil War and Restoration, but literally jumped a hundred years into Industrial Revolution and Empire, but like they pressed the FF button and skipped too fast.
Summary histories never please everyone, but this is a disappointment to me, as the first 200pg were enjoyable even knowing the history.
The good part is, the links via QR codes to Podcasts from HH on the related topics on the pages.
I will check some out again for sure, but it occurs to me, I really have done a LOT of Medieval England reading.
To be sure, I also agreed that the WWI and II were crucial to English History as well, and another area hard to summarize, but they did well.
I think 20th Century is just still too much and too big to do an “overview” of until another 50yrs pass.
I realize it was a book to appeal to a larger audience who (unlike me) don’t know history or details, but I always enjoy
History Hit, Dan, and his work. Thought they really lost the plot after they decided after perfectly good summarizing the start thru Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, to Alfred and the Vikings, The conquest, Henry II, Edward I, III, the Wars of the Roses, and most of medieval period, they jumped fine into Tudor and then Stuart, as well as the English Civil War and Restoration, but literally jumped a hundred years into Industrial Revolution and Empire, but like they pressed the FF button and skipped too fast.
Summary histories never please everyone, but this is a disappointment to me, as the first 200pg were enjoyable even knowing the history.
The good part is, the links via QR codes to Podcasts from HH on the related topics on the pages.
I will check some out again for sure, but it occurs to me, I really have done a LOT of Medieval England reading.
To be sure, I also agreed that the WWI and II were crucial to English History as well, and another area hard to summarize, but they did well.
I think 20th Century is just still too much and too big to do an “overview” of until another 50yrs pass.
May 17, 2025
Ideal book to dip in and out of for information on the history of England.
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