The article examines the artistic representation of historical memory and national identity in the contemporary English historical novel through landscape and local colour. The works of H. Mantel, P. Ackroyd, G. Swift, and J. Barnes are selected as the objects of study. The aim of the article is to determine the functions of space, landscape, and local colour in interpreting historical experience and shaping collective memory in postmodern historical prose. The research employs historical-literary, comparative-typological, hermeneuticanalysis methods. The theoretical framework is based on the views of P. Nora, J. de Groot, O. Lidenkova, O. Gorbunova, and other scholars on historical memory and the poetics of the historical novel. The results of the analysis show that in the contemporary English historical novel, landscape and local colour serve not only as a means of reconstructing a historical period but also as an important method for preserving and transmitting historical memory. In H. Mantel’s novels, the landscape functions as a psychological device that reveals the inner world of the protagonist; in P. Ackroyd’s works, London becomes the central space of historical memory; in G. Swift’s prose, the natural environment expresses the complex relationship between history and memory; in J. Barnes’s novels, simulative interpretations of national identity and historical heritage are critically reassessed. The conclusion states that the contemporary English historical novel depicts the past not as a single and fixed truth, but as a field of multiple interpretations. Local colour and landscape thus emerge as important artistic means that reveal the interconnection between history, memory, and national identity.