Full name: Common People: The History of an English Family

Author: Alison Light Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781905490387 9780141039862 1905490380

Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors? Beginning with her grandparents, Alison Light moves between the present and the past, in an extraordinary series of journeys over two centuries, across Britain and beyond. Epic in scope and deep in feeling, Common People is a family history but also a new kind of public history, following the lives of the migrants who travelled the country looking for work. Original and eloquent, it is a timely rethinking of who the English were - but ultimately it reflects on history itself, and on our constant need to know who went before us and what we owe them. Similar books: The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Mobituaries by Mo Rocca The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt Joseph Fouche by Stefan Zweig A Man Called Intrepid by William Stevenson Churchill by Winston Churchill The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick Patriots by A. J. Langguth A Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer The Flight by Dan Hampton Lafayette by Harlow Giles Unger Crazy Horse by Mari Sandoz