Volume 1) Chaucer's England and the Early Tudors.; Volume 2: The Age of Shakespeare and the Stuart Period.; Volume 3: Eighteenth Century (1950) ; Volume 4: Nineteenth Century. (1951) Overseas customers please note this is a multi volume set and will attract additiona poostage. " George Macaulay Trevelyan OM CBE FRS FBA (16 February 1876[2] - 21 July 1962), was a British historian and academic.....Many of his writings promoted the Whig Party, an important aspect of British politics from the 17th century to the mid-19th century, and its successor, the Liberal Party. Whigs and Liberals believed the common people had a more positive effect on history than did royalty and that democratic government would bring about steady social progress.....English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries: Chaucer to Queen Victoria (1942 US and Canada, 1944 UK). Published during the darkest days of World War Two, it painted a nostalgic picture of England's glorious past as the beacon of liberty and progress, stirring patriotic feelings and becoming his best selling book, also his last major history book." (Wikipedia)