The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line 8 Volume Set

A landmark in female historiography, this work first appeared in eight volumes between 1763 and 1783.

Notable for her radical politics and her influence on American revolutionary ideology, Catharine Macaulay (1731-91) drew diligently on untapped seventeenth-century sources to craft her skilful yet inevitably biased narrative.

Seen as a Whig response to David Hume's Tory perspective on English history, the early volumes made Macaulay a literary sensation in the 1760s.

Later instalments were less rapturously received by those critics who took exception to her republican views.

Both the product and a portrait of tumultuous ages, the work maintains throughout a strong focus on the fortunes of political liberty.

Beginning with the founding of the dynasty in 1603, Macaulay paints a particularly vivid picture of Stuart tyranny under Charles I.

Later volumes go on to cover the English Civil War, the Commonwealth, the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution.