Author Archives
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General Character
It is not consonant to experience that a thickly peopled and peaceful country should long be without cities
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Personal Appearance, Dress, Food, and Dwellings
The Britons were rather tall in stature, being half a foot taller than the Gauls, who were superior in height to the Romans
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Sources of Information
The chief information concerning the state of the country and the habits of the people is only to be derived from the extant writings of Julius Caesar
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First Inhabitants the Celtae and the Belgae
Antiquaries are agreed that among the earliest, if not absolutely the first known inhabitants of the island, were the Celtae
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Country Known to the Greeks
That the country was known by name to the Greeks, so far back as three hundred and sixty years before Christ
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Early British Fables and Legends
British history partakes largely of the fabulous and uncertain.
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Pre-Historic Ages
The early history of every nation gradually fades away into tradition, legend, fable, and myth.
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Illustrations
National and Domestic History of England, Magna Charta, writen by W.H.S. Aubrey in 1869
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Introductory
English history is one of which all, English men may be greatly proud, and for which they should be grateful.
