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Can anyone recommend a good history of Pre-Roman Britain? The portion of history we're teaching our girls this year includes this time, and we'd like to have some background material to study up on ...
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08-20-2009, 02:20 PM
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Do you mean pre-Roman Catholic or Pre-Roman Invasion (by Caesar in 55BC)?
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08-20-2009, 02:28 PM
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Pre-Roman Invasion... i.e. Britain BC.
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08-20-2009, 02:32 PM
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This might help, Prehistoric Britain Guide. Remember GIYF (Google is your friend).
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08-20-2009, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by jandrusk  | Sure, Google is my friend, and I've been to that site. What I really want is anyone's opinion here, having experience with a book or two - not what I can get from Google.
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08-20-2009, 03:01 PM
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Pre-Roman history of Britain is dependent a lot on archaeology, of course.
This is a good book on the Celts which were the inhabitants of Britain and Ireland before the Romans arrived, Goidelic (Gaelic) Celts in Ireland, and Brythonic (British Celts) in Great Britain:-
This series called '' The Making of Scotland" deals with the ancient history of the north of Britain, but I've only read the volume on AD 800-1124. This volume, apparently, covers 4000 - 1500 BC:-
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This book is an interesting read on the history of Scotland. It has a great deal of work on Pre-Roman history in Alba.
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08-20-2009, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by jandrusk | Sure, Google is my friend, and I've been to that site. What I really want is anyone's opinion here, having experience with a book or two - not what I can get from Google. | Your daughter needs to appreciate that this is in the realms of archeology and not history. For something a bit more interesting and off the boring beaten track, I greatly enjoyed the beautiful book Facing the Ocean by Barry Cunliffe - - although in getting that link I see it is out of print and my copy could be worth a lot of money if Amazon is anything to go by! Sorry, that wasn't much use.
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08-20-2009, 03:39 PM
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I seem to recall that this was quite good.
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Do not forget Julius Ceasers Commentaries on the Gallic War that also cover Britain, this is as good as it gets in actualy having real a historical document rather than just conjecture.
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08-20-2009, 08:07 PM
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Without a doubt, the best book I have read on this subject is Before Scotland:
Highly recommended!!
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