{"id":6675,"date":"2019-03-21T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6675"},"modified":"2019-03-21T12:05:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:05:44","slug":"the-english-speaking-peoples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2019\/03\/21\/the-english-speaking-peoples\/","title":{"rendered":"The English-Speaking Peoples"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always interesting to see what books looked like when they first appeared. Here’s Churchill’s masterpiece of popular history, the History of the English-Speaking Peoples<\/a><\/em>…<\/p>\n

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There are two abridged versions, the handsome The Island Race<\/a><\/em> (1964) with copious illustrations, and History of the English-Speaking Peoples<\/em> (abridged)<\/a>. They’re said to be just a bit dry, with a lot of Churchill’s personality and wit removed. Those who balk at the length might do better to try the four-volumes unabridged, in a good audiobook version.<\/p>\n

Churchill’s set of books came to a halt as the year 1900 dawned. But a later masterly updating was accomplished with the further book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900<\/a><\/em> by Andrew Roberts. Roberts is coming to speak in Stoke-on-Trent<\/a> this summer, at the city’s literary festival. <\/p>\n

Incidentally there’s now a book which calmly and systematically rebuts all the myths and sly slurs about Churchill, Winston Churchill: Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality: What He Actually Did and Said<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s always interesting to see what books looked like when they first appeared. Here’s Churchill’s masterpiece of popular history, the History of the English-Speaking Peoples… There are two abridged versions, the handsome The Island Race (1964) with copious illustrations, and History of the English-Speaking Peoples (abridged). They’re said to be just a bit dry, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}