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Story telling; Robert Lacey, royal biographer and commentator, describes his enthusiasm for joyously traditional history. (Point Of Departure).(Critical Essay)

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From: History Today
Date: 20020601
Author:Lacey, Robert

THE FIRST HISTORY BOOK I remember reading with pleasure was a stout, blue, and exuberantly triumphalist volume, Our Island Story--A History of England for Boys and Girls by H.E. Marshall. It had a red and gold crown and shield that were embossed into the cover in the style of a G.A. Henty adventure story book. It told the tales of men, women and often children whom it dared to describe as `Heroes' and `Heroines', and it was accompanied by a companion volume, Our Empire Story, which was still more politically incorrect. This related the sagas of the heroes and heroines who had ...

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