A F Pollard: 7 books

Author Albert F. Pollard writes here that he “hopes to bring out the significance which underlies the ordinary facts of some portions of modern English history.” Comprehensive and engrossing, Pollard’s book does just that—it provides the reader with an extraordinary understanding of topics in...

Albert Frederick Pollard was a British historian who specialized in the Tudor period.

Albert Frederick Pollard was a British historian who specialized in the Tudor period.

Published in 1965: It has been maintained by an eminent scholar recently dead that the chief content of modern history is the emancipation of conscience from the control of authority. From that point of view the student of Tudor times will not be exclusive in his choice of heroes. He will find room...

Published in 1912, this history begins with the foundations of prehistoric England (55 bc) and continues through 1911—from the basic foundation of a country, through the emergence of a people and a national identity, self-government, expansion, industrial revolution, and finally to an empire. The volume also includes a concluding chapter on the distinctive elements of English democracy.

This book contains multiple stories about travelling from the world's greatest travellers: New Dependencies of the United States (OLIVER H. G. LEIGH) Winter and Summer in New England (HARRIET MARTINEAU) Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands (CHARLES MORRIS) From New York to Washington in 1866 (HENRY...