ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITISH HISTORY

Designed for children but a fantastic revision course with hundreds of specially commissioned colour artworks to enjoy and maps and fact boxes, we believe adults will appreciate the clear layout of this superb resume. Beginning with the ancient lands 500,000 to 700BC and including chapters on Flint and Stone, The First Farmers, Stones of Mystery and Places of the Dead, Metal and Pottery, we then move on to the Celts and Romans 700BC to AD446 with chapters on The Masters of Iron, Druids and Mistletoe, Roads and Towns. The period AD446 to 1066 is entitled Raiders and Settlers and looks at The Age of Arthur, Saxon Swords, The Making of Wales and England, Viking Raids, Alfred and the Danes and Macbeth's Scotland. The following chapters cover Castles and Knights, Palaces and Players, World Power and The Modern Age and includes the Crusades, the Hundred Years War, the Wars of the Roses, Shakespeare's Genius, the Spanish Armada, Royalty, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Factory Age, World Wars, the Cold War, Ireland North and South, Left, Right or Centre and Looking to the Future. With super timeline and fact boxes as we find out about fossilised bones and stone tools, the first mines, Hastings 1066, knights in armour, clashes of faith, treason and gunpowder, asylum seekers, a textile revolution, puffing billies, the Gold Rush, dance music to climate change. 384 magnificent pages for ages 10 and up. 22.8 x 18cm.