Robert Tombs
British historian specialising in modern France and Anglo-French relations; Emeritus Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and author of works including That Sweet Enemy and The English and Their History (co-authored).
Books
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1. The English And Their History
A sweeping, readable narrative that traces England’s development from its beginnings through the modern era, emphasizing how institutions, language, religion, social structures and imperial expansion shaped a distinct English identity; the book interweaves political and cultural history—monarchy and parliament, common law, the Reformation, industrialization, and class conflict—with diplomatic and military events to explain how England both influenced and was transformed by empire, war and globalization, and it assesses continuities and tensions in national character, regional diversity and the changing relationship between England and the wider United Kingdom up to contemporary debates about immigration, sovereignty and national purpose.
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