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Great Tales From English History - Robert Lacey



With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England -- from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman.

The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation.

In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England's past, highlighting the spread of the English language, the rejection of both a religion and a traditional view of kingly authority, and an unstoppable movement toward intellectual and political freedom from 1387 to 1689. 


1399: The Deposing of King Richard II

1399: ‘Turn Again, Dick Whittington!’

1399: Henry IV and His Extra-Virgin Oil

1415: We Happy Few - the Battle of Azincourt

1429: Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans

1440: A ‘Prompter for Little Ones’

1422-61, 1470-1: House of Lancaster: the Two Reigns of Henry VI

1432-85: The House of Theodore

1461-70, 1471-83: House of York: Edward IV, Merchant King

1474: William Caxton

1483: Whodunit? The Princes in the Tower

1484: The Cat and the Rat

1485: The Battle of Bosworth Field

1486-99: Double Trouble

1497: Fish N’ Ships

1500: Fork In, Fork Out

1509-33: King Henry VIII’s Great Matter’

1525: Let There be Light’ William Tyndale and the English Bible

1535: Thomas More and His Wonderful‘No-Place’

1533-7: Divorced, Beheaded, Died…

1536: The Pilgrimage of Grace

1539-47:… Divorced, Beheaded, Survived

1547-53: Boy King - Edward VI, The Godly Imp’

1553: Lady Jane Grey -The Nine-Day Queen

1553-58: Bloody Mary and the Fires of Smithfield

1557: Robert Recorde and His Intelligence Sharpener

1559: Elizabeth - Queen of Hearts

1571: That’s Entertainment

1585: Sir Walter Ralegh and the Lost Colony

1560-87: Mary Queen of Scots

1588: Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada

1592: Sir Johns Jakes

1603: By Time Surprised

1605: 5/11: England’s First Terrorist

1611: King James’s‘Authentical’ Bible

1616: ’Spoilt Child’ and the Pilgrim Fathers

1622: The Ark of the John Tradescants

1629: God’s Lieutenant in Earth

1642: ’All My Birds Have Flown’

1642-8: Roundheads V. Cavaliers

1649: Behold the Head of a Traitor!

1653: ’Take Away This Bauble!’

1655: Rabbi Manasseh and the Return of the Jews

1660: Charles II and the Royal Oak

1665: The Village that Chose to Die

1666: London Burning

1678/9: Titus Oates and the Popish Plot
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