{"product_id":"a-history-of-britain-volume-1-at-the-edge-of-the-world-3000-bc-ad-1603","title":"A History of Britain - Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first book in Simon Schama's acclaimed three-volume journey into Britain's past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChange - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many? Has British history unfolded 'at the edge of the world' or right at the heart of it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchama delivers these themes in a form that is at once traditional and excitingly fresh. The great and the wicked are here - Becket and Thomas Cromwell, Robert the Bruce and Anne Boleyn - but so are countless more ordinary lives- an Irish monk waiting for the plague to kill him in his cell at Kilkenny; a small boy running through the streets of London to catch a glimpse of Elizabeth I.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first in a series, this volume paints a rich and vivid portrait of the life of the British people and their nation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51569163829565,"sku":"9781847920126","price":20.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3135\/9805\/files\/9781847920126.jpg?v=1775773647","url":"https:\/\/bookclub.org.nz\/products\/a-history-of-britain-volume-1-at-the-edge-of-the-world-3000-bc-ad-1603","provider":"Book Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}