The Celts

NORA CHADWICK was born in 1891 and went to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was later an Honorary Life Fellow. Most of her life was spent doing research, mainly into the Celts. She wrote many books and articles in connection with her subject and in 1961 was awarded a CBE.  She died in 1972.<br/>
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BARRY CUNLIFFE studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge. His books include THE CELTIC WORLD, IRON AGE COMMUNITIES IN BRITAIN and DANEBURY.

The Celtic period was one of tremendous expansion, the last phase of European material and intellectual development before the Mediterranean world spread northwards over the Continent and linked it to modern times. Nora Chadwick's classic survey traces the rise and spread of the Celts, from their arrival in the British Isles in about the eighth century BC to the gradual transformation of their culture, initially under the Romans and later the Saxons.

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From Earliest Times to the Present Day

Compiled by a team of leading historians, this is a wonderfully rich, lavishly illustrated history of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.  The reader is taken on a journey from prehistoric times to the present day, examining such topics as the spread of literacy, the development of transport, and the evolution of country houses on the way.  British cities are brought to life in artwork reconstructions that take the reader back to the Dublin of the 18th century or London in the 1850s. Scholarly yet accessible, this is the ideal introduction to British and Irish history.

The Penguin Illustrated History of Britain and Ireland

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