I have begun the 'History of England' by Mr. Hume. It seems to me very interesting, though it is necessary to recollect that it is a Protestant who has written it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!
The book that meant most to me was 'The Wind in the Willows.' It sounds ridiculous, but that was my vision of England.
It's a very good historical book about history.
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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