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The Story Of England
In The Story of England Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over fifteen centuries from the moment that the Roman Emperor Honorius sent his famous letter in 410 advising the English to look to their own defences to the village as it is today The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England It has a church some pubs the Grand Union Canal a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history In the thirteenth century the village was bought by William de Merton who later founded Merton College Oxford with the result that documents covering 750 years of village history are lodged at the collegeBuilding on this unique archive and enlisting the help of the current inhabitants of Kibworth with a village-wide archeological
dig with the first complete DNA profile of an English village and with use of local materials like family memorabilia the story of Kibworth is the story of England itself a 'Who Do You Think You Are?' for the entire nation 'Better than any historian for decades in In Search of England Wood brings home not just the ways in which buildings landscapes and written texts may be read but the sensual beauty of encounters with them' TLSMichael Wood was born and educated in Manchester He was an open scholar in Modern History at Oriel College Oxford where he held a Bishop Fraser scholarship in Medieval History as a postgraduate He has made a number of internationally successful tv series including In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great and four of his books have been UK non-fiction number one
bestsellers His highly acclaimed book of essays on early English history In Search of England was published by Penguin in 1999
dig with the first complete DNA profile of an English village and with use of local materials like family memorabilia the story of Kibworth is the story of England itself a 'Who Do You Think You Are?' for the entire nation 'Better than any historian for decades in In Search of England Wood brings home not just the ways in which buildings landscapes and written texts may be read but the sensual beauty of encounters with them' TLSMichael Wood was born and educated in Manchester He was an open scholar in Modern History at Oriel College Oxford where he held a Bishop Fraser scholarship in Medieval History as a postgraduate He has made a number of internationally successful tv series including In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great and four of his books have been UK non-fiction number one
bestsellers His highly acclaimed book of essays on early English history In Search of England was published by Penguin in 1999
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