This is an irreverent but informative take on the people, institutions, disasters and triumphs that helped to shape modern-day Britain. Packing in facts alongside fun, the book offers an easy-to-follow account of why Britains place in the world's imagination far exceeds its size and influence.
It features: the British are coming!; crops and circles - very early Brits; Celtic rangers - the ancient Britons; everyone else is coming! - the invaders; Roman holiday; Angle-land; helmets, no horns; 1066 and all that followed; who's in charge around here? The Middle Ages; England gets an empire; all those kings; priests, plagues and peasants; rights and royal.
