Authors: Clive Aslet
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-15 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Villages of Britain is the history of the countryside, told through five hundred of its most noteworthy settlements. Many of Britain's villages are known for their loveliness, of course, but their role in shaping the nation over the centuries is relatively untold, drowned out by the metropolitan bias of history.