A Young Person's History of England, written by Charles Dickens for his own children in 1853, is an extraordinarily entertaining account, sparkling with Dickensian humor, of the great past of one of the most historically rich countries in Europe. The reader will see a whole gallery of outstanding personalities: the legendary King Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror, Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart, Lord Protector Cromwell and the Merry Monarch Charles, and in Dickens’s stories, replete with little-known facts and amazing details, they will appear not as cold monuments, but living people. The book is addressed both to schoolchildren who are just discovering the world of history, and to their parents, who have often closed it to themselves along with a boring textbook.