TY - BOOK AU - Ackroyd,Peter TI - Foundation: the history of England from its earliest beginnings to the Tudors SN - 125000361X (hardcover) PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Thomas Dunne Books KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Henry VII, 1485-1509 KW - To 1485 N1 - "First published in Great Britain by Macmillan"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references and index; Hymns of stone -- The Roman way -- Climate change -- Spear points -- The blood eagle -- The measure of the king - -The coming of the conquerors -- The house -- Devils and wicked men -- The road - -The law is lost -- The names -- The turbulent priest -- The lost village -- The great charter -- Crime and punishment -- A simple king -- The seasonal year -- The emperor of Britain -- The hammer -- The favourites of a king -- Birth and death -- The sense of a nation -- The night schools -- The commotion -- Into the woods -- The suffering king -- Old habits -- The warrior -- How others saw us -- A simple man -- Meet the family -- The divided realm -- The world at play -- The lion and the lamb -- The staple of life -- The king of spring -- Come to town -- The king of suspicions -- A conclusion N2 - One of Britain's most popular and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the birth of England. The first in an extraordinary six-volume history, "Foundation" takes the reader from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII ER -