What was this children's history book?

March 21, 2018 2:47 PM

I'm looking for a book I read around 1981. It was a children's history book told through stories of a fictionalised English family - the same family over several hundred years. One chapter described children being allowed to wear more comfortable clothes as a result of changes in fashion following the French Revolution. There was a fold-out family tree at the end of the book. My copy was a fairly thin hardback without a dustjacket, and I'm sure it was a British publisher. It was more of a fictionalised textbook than a children's novel.
posted by paduasoy to Writing & Language (2 answers total)

The only book I know of with a chronological structure like that about England is Sarum, but it is not a childrens' book, and a serious enough novel that I don't think anyone ever called it a fictionalized textbook.
posted by seasparrow at 11:01 PM on March 21, 2018

Response by poster: Thanks. No, definitely not Sarum.
posted by paduasoy at 5:24 AM on March 22, 2018