Education Any history buffs or students out there?

Hallo history lovers, wanting some advice of y'all.

I've read various european history mostly ranging over the last millenium over the years, but now I'm wanting something that covers at least the last 2000 years (at least from the end of the major roman empire), preferably in 100 year blocks. Does anyone know of anything that fits the bill? It'd be great to be able just to buy 100-300 page books that cover 100 years of european history, political, cultural, philosophical, technological at a time. Since I doubt such a specific thing exists though, I'm hoping you can all understand pretty much what I want and make reccomendations based on that desire.

Cheers.

 

There is one publication which immediately comes to mind, though it might only be available in Norway.
It was published last year and is a very good historical referendum comprising 15 volumes and covering most of what we call written history.

It was published on Aschehoug publishing house, and is simply called World history. Not quite what you're looking for I guess, but it is very good and goes into great detail.

Oh yeah, and I do have all fifteen volumes sitting in my bookshelf. They look quite impressive if I dare say so myself.

 

Sorry if this is meant to be obviously implied, but is it in Norwegian?

 

Ah.
No, I think I should be the one to apologise. I didn't even consider the language-barriers. Being fluent in english (as well as norwegian obviously) the problem didn't occur to me. Yes, the books are in norwegian - and I know you guys don't have norwegian as a second language option over there. Come to think of it, I don't think anyone does.

The books are very good though.

 

is there not those chronicles series books they massive like 1000 pages, my bro had a Uk one supporting his monitor

 

couldn't you wiki it???

 

Thanks anyway Journeyer. Don't think it's quite worth learning a new language for

Pranks7er, that's kinda what the threads about finding out

And The Beast, yes, wikipedia will contain the information I'm interested in probably, but sitting front of a computer for an extra 2-3 hours a day digesting history just isn't something I want. Plus you can't always refer to it as easily - and it's not written nearly as well as most real books are.

 

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index.shtml

 

Those are look to be two very interesting websites Nexxo, thanks. Not in book form unfortunately, but cool nonetheless

 

UK only, but Simon Schama's 'History of Britain' books-of-the-TV-series are good reading. Though it's cheaper to buy the DVD...

 

For the interesting bits: http://www.horrible-histories.co.uk/