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David Horspool

    David Horspool je britský historik a novinář, jehož práce se zaměřuje na detailní zkoumání historických událostí. Svými články přispívá do předních britských i mezinárodních deníků a literárních časopisů. Jeho psaní se vyznačuje hlubokým porozuměním historickým souvislostem a schopností představit složité dějiny poutavým způsobem. Prostřednictvím svého novinářského pera odhaluje vrstvy minulosti a přibližuje je současnému čtenáři.

    More Than a Game
    Oliver Cromwell
    Alfred the Great
    The English Rebel
    Richard III
    Oliver Cromwell (Penguin Monarchs)
    • The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback Although he styled himself 'His Highness', adopted the court ritual of his royal predecessors, and lived in the former royal palaces of Whitehall and Hampton Court, Oliver Cromwell was not a king - in spite of the best efforts of his supporters to crown him. Yet, as David Horspool shows in this illuminating new portrait of England's Lord Protector, Cromwell, the Puritan son of Cambridgeshire gentry, wielded such influence that it would be a pretence to say that power really lay with the collective. The years of Cromwell's rise to power, shaped by a decade-long civil war, saw a sustained attempt at the collective government of England; the first attempts at a real Union of Britain; the beginnings of empire; a radically new solution to the idea of a national religion; atrocities in Ireland; and the readmission to England of the Jews, a people officially banned for over three and a half centuries. At the end of it, Oliver Cromwell had emerged as the country's sole ruler: to his enemies, and probably to most of his countrymen, his legacy looked as likely to last as that of the Stuart dynasty he had replaced.

      Oliver Cromwell (Penguin Monarchs)
    • Richard III

      • 336 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení
      3,8(15)Ohodnotit

      A fascinating reappraisal of Richard III, the man and the monarch

      Richard III
    • From the Peasants' Revolt to the suffragettes, from Oliver Cromwell to Arthur Scargill, this book describes a tradition of resistance, rebellion and radicalism, of violent and charismatic individuals with axes to grind, and of social eruptions and political earthquakes that have shaped England's whole culture and character.

      The English Rebel
    • Alfred the Great

      • 272 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení
      3,3(135)Ohodnotit

      The life of the warrior king of England whose remains have sensationally just been discovered in Winchester.

      Alfred the Great
    • Oliver Cromwell

      • 144 stránek
      • 6 hodin čtení

      Although he styled himself 'His Highness', adopted the court ritual of his royal predecessors, and lived in the former royal palaces of Whitehall and Hampton Court, Oliver Cromwell was not a king - in spite of the best efforts of his supporters to crown him. Yet, as David Horspool shows in this illuminating new portrait of England's Lord Protector, Cromwell, the Puritan son of Cambridgeshire gentry, wielded such influence that it would be a pretence to say that power really lay with the collective. The years of Cromwell's rise to power, shaped by a decade-long civil war, saw a sustained attempt at the collective government of England; the first attempts at a real Union of Britain; the beginnings of empire; a radically new solution to the idea of a national religion; atrocities in Ireland; and the readmission to England of the Jews, a people officially banned for over three and a half centuries. At the end of it, Oliver Cromwell had emerged as the country's sole ruler: to his enemies, and probably to most of his countrymen, his legacy looked as likely to last as that of the Stuart dynasty he had replaced.

      Oliver Cromwell
    • The story of Britain, told through its many sports.

      More Than a Game