A People's History of England Arthur Leslie Morton

This is a history book which scholar and average reader alike will find absorbing, exciting and rich in content. It treats history not in terms of kings and dates and battles nor yet in terms of dry economics but in terms of people, showing how the English people have shaped their own history and their social institutions from the time of the Norman Conquest. A work of unquestioned erudition, it not only describes and records as so many historians are content to do but explains; in it history comes to life, and the reader understands why things happened and how the present grew out of the past and consequently understands too how the future can be shaped.