Volume 1: https://archive.org/details/hgwellsoutlinehistoryvol1
Volume 2: https://archive.org/details/hgwellsoutlinehistoryvol2
For those unaware, Wells sought to cover the history of the world from the beginnings of the planet up to World War I.
It was originally published in 1920 with further revisions up to 1939; after his death his close friend Raymond Postgate and one of Wells' sons kept revising and updating it to remove obviously outdated information and describe the world up to the 1960s.
It goes without saying that some of the information in these volumes is bound to be outdated and that one can disagree with Wells' interpretations of historical figures and events, but it still represented an impressive undertaking of over a thousand pages and was quite famous in its day. I figure some here may find it of interest.
Volume 2: https://archive.org/details/hgwellsoutlinehistoryvol2
For those unaware, Wells sought to cover the history of the world from the beginnings of the planet up to World War I.
It was originally published in 1920 with further revisions up to 1939; after his death his close friend Raymond Postgate and one of Wells' sons kept revising and updating it to remove obviously outdated information and describe the world up to the 1960s.
It goes without saying that some of the information in these volumes is bound to be outdated and that one can disagree with Wells' interpretations of historical figures and events, but it still represented an impressive undertaking of over a thousand pages and was quite famous in its day. I figure some here may find it of interest.
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