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A Child's History of England

Charles Dickens

Spanning from 50 BC to 1689, with a summary reaching 1837, Dickens crafted this work specifically for his own children.

"A Child's History of England" by Charles Dickens is a history book. Spanning from 50 BC to 1689, with a summary reaching 1837, Dickens crafted this work specifically for his own children.

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If you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of Scotland,—broken off, I dare say, in the course of a great length of time, by the power of the restless water.

In the old days, a long, long while ago, before Our Saviour was born on earth and lay asleep in a manger, these Islands were in the same place, and the stormy sea roared round them, just as it roars now. But the sea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Islands lay solitary, in the great expanse of water. The foaming waves dashed against their cliffs, and the bleak winds blew over their forests; but the winds and waves brought no adventurers to land upon the Islands, and the savage Islanders knew nothing of the rest of the world, and the rest of the world knew nothing of them.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I Ancient England and the Romans
  2. 02Chapter II Ancient England Under the Early Saxons
  3. 03Chapter III England Under the Good Saxon, Alfred
  4. 04Chapter IV England Under Athelstan and the Six Boy-Kings
  5. 05Chapter V England Under Canute the Dane
  6. 06Chapter VI England Under Harold Harefoot, Hardicanute, and Edward the Confessor
  7. 07Chapter VII England Under Harold the Second, and Conquered by the Normans
  8. 08Chapter VIII England Under William the First, the Norman Conqueror
  9. 09Chapter IX England Under William the Second, Called Rufus
  10. 10Chapter X England Under Henry the First, Called Fine-Scholar
  11. 11Chapter XI England Under Matilda and Stephen
  12. 12Chapter XII England Under Henry the Second
  13. 13Part the First
  14. 14Part the Second
  15. 15Chapter XIII England Under Richard the First, Called the Lion-Heart
  16. 16Chapter XIV England Under King John, Called Lackland
  17. 17Chapter XV England Under Henry the Third, Called, of Winchester
  18. 18Chapter XVI England Under Edward the First, Called Longshanks
  19. 19Chapter XVII England Under Edward the Second
  20. 20Chapter XVIII England Under Edward the Third
  21. 21Chapter XIX England Under Richard the Second
  22. 22Chapter XX England Under Henry the Fourth, Called Bolingbroke
  23. 23Chapter XXI England Under Henry the Fifth
  24. 24First Part
  25. 25Second Part
  26. 26Chapter XXII England Under Henry the Sixth
  27. 27Part the First
  28. 28Part the Second: The Story of Joan of Arc
  29. 29Part the Third
  30. 30Chapter XXIII England Under Edward the Fourth
  31. 31Chapter XXIV England Under Edward the Fifth
  32. 32Chapter XXV England Under Richard the Third
  33. 33Chapter XXVI England Under Henry the Seventh
  34. 34Chapter XXVII England Under Henry the Eighth, Called Bluff King Hal and Burly King Harry
  35. 35Part the First
  36. 36Chapter XXVIII England Under Henry the Eighth
  37. 37Part the Second
  38. 38Chapter XXIX England Under Edward the Sixth
  39. 39Chapter XXX England Under Mary
  40. 40Chapter XXXI England Under Elizabeth
  41. 41Second Part
  42. 42Third Part
  43. 43Chapter XXXII England Under James the First
  44. 44Second Part
  45. 45Chapter XXXIII England Under Charles the First
  46. 46Second Part
  47. 47Third Part
  48. 48Fourth Part
  49. 49Chapter XXXIV England Under Oliver Cromwell
  50. 50Second Part
  51. 51Chapter XXXV England Under Charles the Second, Called the Merry Monarch
  52. 52Second Part
  53. 53Chapter XXXVI England Under James the Second
  54. 54Chapter XXXVII

About this edition

Author
Charles Dickens
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
432 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers