About the Book: Dominion: A History of England Volume V
The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyds acclaimed and bestselling six-volume
History of England.
Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman - Ian Thomson, Independent
The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyds masterful History of England series,
Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives
way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death
of Queen Victoria in January 1901. In it, Ackroyd takes us from the accession of
the profligate George IV whose government was steered by Lord Liverpool, who was
firmly set against reform, to the reign of