Promotional Information

From the Norman Conquest to the Battle of Bosworth Field - how Britain was invaded and become a nation. The first volume in the stunning four volume Brief History of Britain series.

About the Author

NICHOLAS VINCENT has published a dozen books and some hundred academic articles on various aspects of English and European history in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, having arrived at Norwich via Oxford, Cambridge, Paris and Canterbury. He is now Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia, where he is currently finishing an edition of the charters of the Plantagenet kings and queens from Henry II to King John, and leads a major project researching the background to Magna Carta. Nicholas is a Fellow of the British Academy.