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Peter Ackroyd - Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors Unabridged AudioBook | 2013 | Genre: History | English | ISBN-13: 978-1250037558 | MP3 64Kb | 504.52 MB In this massive bestseller in England, one of Britain's most popular and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the birth of the country. Peter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding of England's history, now tells the epic story of England itself. In Foundation,the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death of the first Tudor king, Henry VII, in 1509. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past-a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house-and describes in rich prose the successive waves of invaders who made England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon, or Norman French. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, civil strife, and foreign wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how England's early people lived: the homes they built, the clothes they wore, the food they ate, even the jokes they told. All are brought vividly to life through the narrative mastery of one of Britain's finest writers. Download Link http://rapidgator.net/file/ea05c54b0ebafb24a8a54725641d09df/Foundation.part1.rar.html http://rapidgator.net/file/a34d7067b14cc79642b03f69bcc08060/Foundation.part2.rar.html http://rapidgator.net/file/ddbdbfd5eab081d1d2e86de05e526da0/Foundation.part3.rar.html http://rapidgator.net/file/9bb2b9c6ef5c830ad7ab320d7c42b8cb/Foundation.part4.rar.html http://uploaded.net/file/y62kuyw9/Foundation.part1.rar http://uploaded.net/file/msilcbo6/Foundation.part2.rar http://uploaded.net/file/kou3tga8/Foundation.part3.rar http://uploaded.net/file/0pfmo75g/Foundation.part4.rar

Peter Ackroyd - Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution Unabridged AudioBook | 2014 | Genre: History | English | ISBN-13: 978-1250003638 | MP3 64Kb | Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins | 529.2 MB Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ending with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The Stuart monarchy brought together the two nations of England and Scotland into one realm, albeit a realm still marked by political divisions that echo to this day. More importantly, perhaps, the Stuart era was marked by the cruel depredations of civil war, and the killing of a king. Shrewd and opinionated, James I was eloquent on matters as diverse as theology, witchcraft, and the abuses of tobacco, but his attitude to the English parliament sowed the seeds of the division that would split the country during the reign of his hapless heir, Charles I. Ackroyd offers a brilliant, warts-and-all portrayal of Charles's nemesis, Oliver Cromwell, Parliament's great military leader and England's only dictator, who began his career as a political liberator but ended it as much of a despot as "that man of blood," the king he executed. England's turbulent seventeenth century is vividly laid out before us, but so too is the cultural and social life of the period, notable for its extraordinarily rich literature, including Shakespeare's late masterpieces, Jacobean tragedy, the poetry of John Donne and Milton and Thomas Hobbes's great philosophical treatise, Leviathan. In addition to its account of England's royalty, Rebellion also gives us a very real sense of the lives of ordinary English men and women, lived out against a backdrop of constant disruption and uncertainty. Download Link http://rapidgator.net/file/e2f8c9c90e28bbf9fc1dfb97258d4f5c/The.History.of.England.part1.rar.html http://rapidgator.net/file/b6d1767d20400f1dc927f6ba12f9e638/The.History.of.England.part2.rar.html http://rapidgator.net/file/1675937e094a378fd7972c065e79f06b/The.History.of.England.part3.rar.html http://rapidgator.net/file/00c219d0bf4fb7eded23d4e772ef4754/The.History.of.England.part4.rar.html http://uploaded.net/file/c8b5ekj2/The.History.of.England.part1.rar http://uploaded.net/file/3ta5rb16/The.History.of.England.part2.rar http://uploaded.net/file/iie4esyy/The.History.of.England.part3.rar http://uploaded.net/file/kr43myxi/The.History.of.England.part4.rar