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![[picture: Front Cover, A Short History of the English People]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Green-ShortHistory/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-346x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, A Short History of the English People]")
Pictures from “A Short History of the English People” by J. R. Green M.A., Macmillan, 1902. This book was first published in 1874, and was very successful. I have the illustrated edition, which was edited posthumously by his widow; this is a reissue of the 1892 edition as far as I can tell from the Impressions page. John Richard Green was an English historian (1837 – 1883). I also have England by the same author.
Title: A Short History of the English People
Published by: Macmillan
City: London
Date: 1902
Total items: 15
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Wooden Church, Greenstead, Essex, A.D. 1013 (as it was in 1748)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Green-ShortHistory/wm/big/121-wooden-church-greenstead-essex-q75-240x200.jpg "[picture: Wooden Church, Greenstead, Essex, A.D. 1013 (as it was in 1748)]")
Wooden Church, Greenstead, Essex, A.D. 1013 (as it was in 1748)
This is said to be the oldest surviving wooden church in England, and is dedicated to Saint Andrew. It was built within 50 years of the Norman Conquest (before or after), probably in place of an older church in [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Front Cover, A Short History of the English People]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Green-ShortHistory/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-138x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, A Short History of the English People]")
Front Cover, A Short History of the English People
Green buckram. My copy is bound in four separate volumes. [$]
![[picture: A Banquet]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Green-ShortHistory/wm/big/0163-Banquet-q75-289x200.jpg "[picture: A Banquet]")
A medieval feast! Two people are seated behind a table laden with food; at either side a person (a servant or slave perhaps) kneels and hands food to one of the seated figures. Between the two seated figures (perhaps a king and queen) another person holds a goblet, or perhaps a flask of wine; whether this person is a servant [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Lady and Youth Playing Draughts,]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Green-ShortHistory/wm/big/0400-Draughts-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Lady and Youth Playing Draughts,]")
Lady and Youth Playing Draughts,
A lady and a young man playing “draughts” from an early fourteenth century manuscript (MS. Roy. 2 B. vii).
It appears that two of the pieces differ from the others, leading me to suspect that this is not draughts as we know it. The youth is seated on the left, with his feet on a stool of some kind. He wears a long robe and a cape, but has a hint of a goatee. The lady is [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Title Page, A Short History of the English People]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Green-ShortHistory/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q75-132x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page, A Short History of the English People]")
