
Dominion
Imprint: 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
416 pages
Imprint: 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