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This Sceptred Isle: 55 BC - 1901: The Roman Invasion to the Death of Queen Victoria

by Christopher Lee · 1996

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This volume carries the story of Britain from the arrival of Roman armies in 55 BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. Christopher Lee follows the island's history through its kings, wars and shifting social order, and asks what gave the British their distinctive institutions and character. Written as a companion to an earlier history of the nation, it traces how Parliament, the aristocracy and other institutions developed over two thousand years, and how the British came to shape the wider world.

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