These outstanding books bring to life the people, places and events of the past in these islands, from the earliest settlers to the present day. They explore the everyday lives of people of all kinds across the centuries and charting the great moments of social change and of discovery and invention. Find out how the Magna Carta came about, what it was like to work in a medieval town, and how the Black Death reached the British Isles.
John Bennett Gillingham is emeritus professor of medieval history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. On the 19th July 2007 he was elected into the Fellowship of the British Academy
He is renowned as an expert on the Angevin empire.