Dominion
06 September 2018Imprint: Macmillan
Synopsis
'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent
The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd’s masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.
In it, Ackroyd takes us from the...
Details
06 September 2018416 pages
9781509880027Imprint: Macmillan
Reviews
A masterful assessment of a period that saw change in every area of lifeHistory Revealed
It is Ackroyd’s depiction of an anxious society in the grip of rapid change – industrialisation, fast urbanisation, the impact of the railway and the electric telegraph – that is the most riveting … fascinatingThe Times
Ackroyd makes history accessible to the laymanIan Thomson, Independent
Ackroyd is a fascinating mix of a nineteenth-century narrative historian and modern social analystGerard de Groot, The Times
