A History of Ancient Britain

Neil Oliver tells the epic story of how Britain and its people came to be over thousands of years of ancient history - the beginnings of our world forged in ice, stone, and bronze Diving for 3,000-year-old treasure and pot-holing through an ancient copper mine he discovers how a golden age of bronze collapsed into social and economic crisis set against a period of sharp climate change... eventually to be replaced by a new era, of iron. A History of Britain is a BBC documentary series written and presented by Simon Schama, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 30 September 2000. Changing Views on British History (1966) A study of the history of the British Isles, each of the 15 episodes allows Schama to examine a particular period and tell of its events in his own style. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. All that is available is a picture of successive cultures and some knowledge of economic development. But even in Roman times Britain lay Several species of humans have intermittently occupied Britain for almost a million years. From the last retreat of the glaciers 12,000 years ago, until the departure of the Roman Empire in the Fifth Century AD this epic series will reveal how and why these islands and nations of ours developed as they did and why we have become the people we are today. Neil Oliver tells the epic story of how Britain and its people came to be over thousands of years of ancient history - the beginnings of our world forged in ice, stone, and bronze Schnelle Lieferung, auch auf Rechnung - lehmanns.de All the programmes are of 59 minutes' duration and were broadcast over three series, ending 18 … The first … Britain’s ancient history is thus lacking in detail, for archaeology can rarely identify personalities, motives, or exact dates or present more than a general overview. A History of Ancient Britain is nothing less than a thoughtful, fascinating and enlivening account of life in ancient Britain, starting way back with the ice ages and leading up to the time of the Romans. There's some overlap with the previous Ancient History series which is a little tedious at the beginning, but it's a useful introduction for those who haven't already seen that. A History of Ancient Britain von Neil Oliver (ISBN 978-0-7538-2886-1) bestellen. This is a really interesting history programme, well researched, informative, and presented with authority and appropriate excitement and wonder by Neil Oliver.