Illustrated English Social History: 1

Harmondsworth. Middlesex.: Pelican Penguin. Very Good. 1964. 1st Pelican Edition. Softcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Paperback Paperback How, in times gone by, did they live - the ordinary people of England? It is unlikely that we shall ever have a better answer to this question than this book, in which a great liberal historian set down all that he had been able to discover of the daily, unspectacular, but endless fascinating life of English people between the Middle Ages and Victorian times. The illustration of this classic work with pictures from contemporary English sources (so far as was possible) perfectly rounded off a historical record which is as scholarly as it is attractive. This 'history of a people with politics left out' describes their work, their food, their homes, their clothes, their customs, their beliefs, their pastimes. All the original illustrations appear in this Pelican edition, which is in four volumes. Illustrated. Tiny crease to corner back cover. .