Our Island Story: A History of Britain

Just over a century ago, Our Island Story entranced a nation's children by telling their history in stories. Short, simply written chapters, packed with living characters and thrilling action — and illustrated with vivid colour pictures — illuminate all the main events from Britain's earliest days to the end of Victoria's reign. Its glorious fusion of myth and legend with sober fact — Canute and King Arthur with Cromwell and the Indian Mutiny — is as seductive now as it ever was.

Praise for Our Island Story:

• Antonia Fraser:
  "I was given H.E. Marshall's Our Island Story at Christmas 1936 and I've still got that copy. It was a direct inspiration for me in my career as a historian."
• David Cameron:
  "It is written in a way that really captured my imagination and which nurtured my interest in the history of our great nation."
• Times Educational Supplement:
  "One of the most influential works of history of the 20th century."