English Experience: A Survey of English History from Earliest Times to the End of Empire

Bowle considers that the historical success of England has been a triumph, not of any commitment to abstract political principles but rather to the absence of it; to a pragmatism maintained through the centuries within a relatively fluid & adaptable social order. In this narrative survey of English history, Bowle provides the political & administrative framework without which it is impossible to understand social & historical developments. He illuminates the personalities of history as well as the events — bringing them to life in their own words & those of their contemporaries. He quotes extensively from original documents ranging from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles to a love letter of Henry VIII. He includes many of the famous stories of English history.