The History of England is David Hume’s great work on the history of England, which he wrote in while he was librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh. It was published in six volumes. The History spanned ‘from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688’ and went through over 100 editions.
Contents:
The Britons.
The Romans.
The Britons.
The Saxons.
The Heptarchy
The Kingdom of Kent
The Kingdom of Northumberland
The Kingdom of East Anglia
The Kingdom of Mercia
The Kingdom of Essex.
The Kingdom of Sussex.
The Kingdom of Wessex.
Egbert.
Ethelwolf.
Ethelbald and Ethelbert.
Ethered
Alfred.
Edward the Elder.
Athelstan.
Edmund.
Edred
Edwy
Edgar
Edward the Martyr
Ethelred
Edmond Ironside
Canute
Harold Harefoot
Hardicanute
Edward the Confessor
Harold
William the Conqueror.
Henry III.
Edward I.
Edward II.
Edward III.
Richard II.
Henry IV
Henry V.
Henry VI.
Edward IV.
Edward V. And Richard III.
Richard III.
William Rufus.
Henry I.
Stephen.
Henry II.
Richard I.
John.
The Feudal and Anglo-Norman Government and Manners
Henry Vii.
Henry Viii.
Edward Vi.
Mary.
Elizabeth.
James I.
Charles I.
The Commonwealth
Charles II.
James II.
About the author
David Hume (1711 – 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.
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