The Crown History of England: Being Our Country's History from the Earliest Records of the Kingdom, to Our Own TimesKnight & Company, 1870 - 928 pages A copious collection of British history from B.C. 55 through Queen Victoria, containing all the Crown's holders and their entailing backstories between. Many sections are dedicated to Anglo-Saxon history. |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Crown History of England: Being Our Country's History from the Earliest Records of the Kingdom, to Our Own Times |
| Author | Charles Knight |
| Publisher | Knight & Company, 1870 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 23 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 928 pages |
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