A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC – AD 1603 (A History of Britain, #1)

'History clings tight but it also kicks loose', writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. 'Disruption as much as persistence is its proper subject. So although the great theme of British history seen from the twentieth century is endurance, its counter-point, seen from the twenty-first, must be alteration.' Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of…