Through the Windows of an Ordinary House: A History of England

Our national history is a patchwork quilt of stories – the North in the Industrial Revolution, the London of Samuel Pepys’s diary, and so on. How would it look if it were written from one point of view? And what if that point of view were here in Devon, on the edge of Dartmoor?

Dr Ian Mortimer has spent the last few years writing an experimental book, “Through the Windows of an Ordinary House - A History of England” showing how the national story differs hugely according to where you were living. He looks at how the history of England would have appeared to the people who lived in his house (and previous houses on the site) since Saxon times. It is hoped that the end result will be nothing less than ‘a glimpse of a thousand years’.

As a prelude to publication in September, this is an illustrated introduction to the house itself and the people who lived in it since the thirteenth century, together with a view of the origins of the settlement.

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