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    British History

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    I found Neil Olivers History of Ancient Britain a fascinating read.

     

    Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A

    HISTORY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very

    beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these

    islands and their battle for survival.

    There has been human habitation in Britain, regularly interrupted by Ice

    Ages, for the best part of a million years. The last retreat of the

    glaciers 12,000 years ago brought a new and warmer age and with it, one

    of the greatest tsunamis recorded on Earth which struck the north-east

    of Britain, devastating the population and flooding the low-lying

    plains of what is now the North Sea. The resulting island became, in

    time, home to a diverse range of cultures and peoples who have left

    behind them some of the most extraordinary and enigmatic monuments in

    the world.

    Through what is revealed by the artefacts of the past, Neil Oliver

    weaves the epic story - half -a-million years of human history up to the

    departure of the Roman Empire in the Fifth Century AD. It was a period

    which accounts for more than ninety-nine per cent of humankind's

    presence on these islands.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I'm reading this at the moment and finding it really enjoyable, there was a TV series to go with it and I might try and download that.

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