A History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, free of the staleness of traditional academe, personalizing key historical events by examining the major characters at the center of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as shaped principally by the actions of great men and women rather than by more abstract developments, but it is a good deal more enthralling as a result.
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