Our Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls

Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall tells a fascinating history of wonder, chivalry and adventure. You and your children will be captured by these amazing historical accounts. Reccommended by the Ambleside Online curriculum, these tales of English history have been told and retold in homes around the world. An excerpt from Our Island Story: I must tell you, though, that this is not a history lesson, but a story-book. There are many facts in school histories, that seem to children to belong to lessons only. Some of these you will not find here. But you will find some stories that are not to be found in your school books,–stories which wise people say are only fairy tales and not history. But it seems to me that they are part of Our Island Story, and ought not to be forgotten, any more than those stories about which there is no doubt… H.E. Marshall 1920