Britannia

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Publisher : Orion Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781858818764
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (187 download)

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Book Synopsis Britannia by : Geraldine McCaughrean

Download or read book Britannia written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the stories of Britain¿s past that children in England, Scotland and Wales used to grow up on. Often discredited, in many cases virtually forgotten, they are nonetheless wonderful tales that will give present-day children a sense of the excitement of history. King Canute, Lady Godiva, Guy Fawkes, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Grace Darling and other famous names live again in these 100 tragic, comic, stirring tales of adventure, folly and wickedness. Spanning nearly three thousand years, and including stories as up-to-date as Live Aid and the Braer Oil Tanker disaster, each story includes a note on what really happened, and there is an index and a list of further reading. This is a unique book with a very wide appeal. It is not a history textbook, simply a collection of stories by a consummate children's writer who has retold in her own inimitable way 100 stories that children will enjoy. Richard Brassey¿s brilliant illustrations on every page bring the characters to life with wit, humour and fascinating period detail.

Britannia: Great Stories from British History

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Publisher : Orion Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781444013900
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Britannia: Great Stories from British History by : Geraldine McCaughrean

Download or read book Britannia: Great Stories from British History written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Canute, Lady Godiva, Guy Fawkes, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Grace Darling and other famous names live again in these 101 tragic, comic, stirring tales of adventure, folly and wickedness. Spanning nearly three thousand years, and including stories as up-to-date as Live Aid, the Braer Oil Tanker disaster and the Hadron Collider, each story includes a note on what really happened.

Britannia

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ISBN 13 : 9781407246918
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Britannia

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ISBN 13 : 9781407247106
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Great Stories from British History

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Publisher : Orion Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781444001426
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Great Stories from British History written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning nearly 3000 years, this collection presents 101 stories of Britain's past, including those of King Canute, Lady Godiva, Guy Fawkes, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and Bob Geldof's Band Aid.

Old stories from British history

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Total Pages : 104 pages
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Britannia - The Failed State

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Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752487655
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Book Synopsis Britannia - The Failed State by : Stuart Laycock

Download or read book Britannia - The Failed State written by Stuart Laycock and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to understand how Roman Britain ends and Anglo-Saxon England begins have been undermined by the division of studies into pre-Roman, Roman and early medieval periods. This groundbreaking new study traces the history of British tribes and British tribal rivalries from the pre-Roman period, through the Roman period and into the post-Roman period. It shows how tribal conflict was central to the arrival of Roman power in Britain and how tribal identities persisted through the Roman period and were a factor in three great convulsions that struck Britain during the Roman centuries. It explores how tribal conflicts may have played a major role in the end of Roman Britain, creating a 'failed state' scenario akin in some ways to those seen recently in Bosnia and Iraq, and brought about the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. Finally, it considers how British tribal territories and British tribal conflicts can be understood as the direct predecessors of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and Anglo-Saxon conflicts that form the basis of early English History.

Ruled Britannia

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101212519
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Ruled Britannia by : Harry Turtledove

Download or read book Ruled Britannia written by Harry Turtledove and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-11-05 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1597. For nearly a decade, the island of Britain has been under the rule of King Philip in the name of Spain. The citizenry live under an enforced curfew—and in fear of the Inquisition’s agents, who put heretics to the torch in public displays. And with Queen Elizabeth imprisoned in the Tower of London, the British have no symbol to unite them against the enemy who occupies their land. William Shakespeare has no interest in politics. His passion is writing for the theatre, where his words bring laughter and tears to a populace afraid to speak out against the tyranny of the Spanish crown. But now Shakespeare is given an opportunity to pen his greatest work—a drama that will incite the people of Britain to rise against their persecutors—and change the course of history.

Rule Britannia

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Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785904566
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)

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Book Synopsis Rule Britannia by : Danny Dorling

Download or read book Rule Britannia written by Danny Dorling and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things fall apart when empires crumble. This time, we think, things will be different. They are not. This time, we are told, we will become great again. We will not. In this new edition of the hugely successful Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. Fuelled by a misplaced nostalgia, the result was driven by a lack of knowledge of Britain's imperial history, by a profound anxiety about Britain's status today, and by a deeply unrealistic vision of our future.

Farewell Britannia

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Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 0297857002
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Book Synopsis Farewell Britannia by : Simon Young

Download or read book Farewell Britannia written by Simon Young and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and gripping account of Roman Britain, written as a family history Brilliant young historian Simon Young has invented a multi-generational family, part Roman, part Celtic (invaders intermarrying with natives) to tell the dramatic story of 400 years of Roman rule in Britain. Vivid historical detail is balanced by a real feel for the psychological depth of the individual stories. The narrator is writing this 'family history' in 430 AD, realising the Romans will never return. He chooses 14 of the most interesting, but not always the most admirable, of his ancestors. The big events of Roman Britain are all here: scouting for Caesar's expedition in 55 BC; the Roman invasion in 43 AD; Boudicca's revolt and the massacre of 70,000 Romans; the Pict attacks on Hadrian's Wall; the great Barbarian Conspiracy of 367; and the sudden cataclysmic departure of the legions in 410. But there are plenty of non-military episodes: spying on the Druids; a centurion dreaming of retirement with a young slave he has bought; an ambitious wife on the northern frontier; a bad poet in Londinium; infanticide in Surrey; a young Christian girl facing martyrdom in a British amphitheatre.

Britannia's Children

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852854416
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (544 download)

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Book Synopsis Britannia's Children by : Eric Richards

Download or read book Britannia's Children written by Eric Richards and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-05-14 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories behind the mass exodus from Great Brittan from 1600 to modern times

Knights, Kings and Conquerors

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Publisher : Chivers Press
ISBN 13 : 9780754078203
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Knights, Kings and Conquerors written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Chivers Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Britannia History Reader : Introductory Book : Stories from British and Canadian History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (298 download)

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Britannia

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Publisher : Letitia Coyne Fiction
ISBN 13 : 9780992285548
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (855 download)

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Book Synopsis Britannia by : Letita Coyne

Download or read book Britannia written by Letita Coyne and published by Letitia Coyne Fiction. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romano-Britain historical romance.

Great Tales from English History

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Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759511616
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Book Synopsis Great Tales from English History by : Robert Lacey

Download or read book Great Tales from English History written by Robert Lacey and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England -- from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman. The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England's past, highlighting the spread of the English language, the rejection of both a religion and a traditional view of kingly authority, and an unstoppable movement toward intellectual and political freedom from 1387 to 1689. Opening with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and culminating in William and Mary's "Glorious Revolution," Lacey revisits some of the truly classic stories of English history: the Battle of Agincourt, where Henry V's skilled archers defeated a French army three times as large; the tragic tale of the two young princes locked in the Tower of London (and almost certainly murdered) by their usurping uncle, Richard III; Henry VIII's schismatic divorce, not just from his wife but from the authority of the Catholic Church; "Bloody Mary" and the burning of religious dissidents; Sir Francis Drake's dramatic, if questionable, part in the defeat of the Spanish Armada; and the terrible and transformative Great Fire of London, to name but a few. Here Anglophiles will find their favorite English kings and queens, villains and victims, authors and architects - from Richard II to Anne Boleyn, the Virgin Queen to Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Pepys to Christopher Wren, and many more. Continuing the "eminently readable, highly enjoyable" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) history he began in volume I of Great Tales from English History, Robert Lacey has drawn on the most up-to-date research to present a taut and riveting narrative, breathing life into the most pivotal characters and exciting landmarks in England's history.

Daredevils and Desperadoes

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Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781842550595
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Daredevils and Desperadoes written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories from Geraldine McCaughrean's larger work Britannia: 100 Great Stories from British History are about Dick Whittington, the Peasants' Revolt, the Battle of Agincourt, the murder of the Princes in the Tower, the ghost of Anne Boleyn, the wooing of Anne of Cleves, Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth, the Spanish Armada, and the Gunpowder Plot. Black-and-white versions of Richard Brassey's exciting illustrations make this an extremely attractive and accessible package.

Britannia History Reader : Book One : Stories from Canadian and British History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Britannia History Reader : Book One : Stories from Canadian and British History written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: