A Child's History of England

From the Romans to the Revolution

Charles Dickens, F. H. Townsend

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9785501045668
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

England from the Romans to the Revolution of 1688, told by Dickens to his own children in a voice that never pretends the kings were admirable. He wrote it in the same years as Bleak House, and his verdicts — on Henry VIII, on the Stuarts, on anyone who burned people — are delivered without the historian's hedging. It is a partisan book by a great novelist, and no child who reads it forgets whose side he is on. Thirty paintings of castles, coast and shipwreck by Henry Bright and David Cox Jr. give the turbulent centuries a fittingly dramatic face.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Chapter I. Ancient England and the Romans
• Chapter II. Ancient England Under the Early Saxons
• Chapter III. England Under the Good Saxon, Alfred
• Chapter IV. England Under Athelstan and the Six Boy-Kings
• Chapter V. England Under Canute the Dane
• Chapter VI. England Under Harold Harefoot, Hardicanute, and Edward the Confessor
• Chapter VII. England Under Harold the Second, and Conquered by the Normans
• Chapter VIII. England Under William the First, the Norman Conqueror
• Chapter IX. England Under William the Second, Called Rufus
• Chapter X. England Under Henry the First, Called Fine-Scholar
• Chapter XI. England Under Matilda and Stephen
• Chapter XII. England Under Henry the Second
• Part the Second
• Chapter XIII. England Under Richard the First, Called the Lion-Heart
• Chapter XIV. England Under King John, Called Lackland
• Chapter XV. England Under Henry the Third, Called, of Winchester
• Chapter XVI. England Under Edward the First, Called Longshanks
• Chapter XVII. England Under Edward the Second
• Chapter XVIII. England Under Edward the Third
• Chapter XIX. England Under Richard the Second
• Chapter XX. England Under Henry the Fourth, Called Bolingbroke
• Chapter XXI. England Under Henry the Fifth
• Chapter XXII. England Under Henry the Sixth
• Part the Second: The Story of Joan of Arc
• Part the Third
• Chapter XXIII. England Under Edward the Fourth
• Chapter XXIV. England Under Edward the Fifth
• Chapter XXV. England Under Richard the Third
• Chapter XXVI. England Under Henry the Seventh
• Chapter XXVII. England Under Henry the Eighth, Called Bluff King Hal and Burly King Harry
• Part the Second
• Chapter XXIX. England Under Edward the Sixth
• Chapter XXX. England Under Mary
• Chapter XXXI. England Under Elizabeth
• Chapter XXXII. England Under James the First
• Chapter XXXIII. England Under Charles the First
• Chapter XXXIV. England Under Oliver Cromwell
• Chapter XXXV. England Under Charles the Second, Called the Merry Monarch
• Chapter XXXVI. England Under James the Second
• Chapter XXXVII
• About the Author