Innovation
02 September 2021
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman’ – Ian Thomson, Independent
Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd’s History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne for almost five decades....
Details
02 September 2021
512 pages
9780230706446
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Ackroyd makes history accessible to the laymanIan Thomson, Independent
Ackroyd’s prose is, as usual, sublime.Gerard DeGroot, The Times
The 20th century is certainly enough of a subject, and witnessed the utter transformation of England. Philip Hensher, Spectator