Ice to Athelstan - The Emergence of England

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>With such concentration on the Tudors onwards the English risk losing sight of their nation's roots. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Ice to Athelstan</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> fills that gap by presenting the story of the country's origins in a succinct and accessible way.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>In twelve short chapters the book covers some 10000 years from the time of the last Ice Age when Britain was a frozen desert until the short reign of the first king of England. It tells the story of who came when from where why and what effect they had as the country was populated taken over abandoned contested and assaulted before the House of Wessex prevailed. In the process it examines the emergent England's links with Wales Scotland Ireland France and Scandinavia as England's neighbours underwent their own national evolution.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>In bringing together a summary of how England emerged</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> Ice to Athelstan</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> delves deeper into many of the underlying issues such as the significance of Iron Age monuments the extent to which people changed or were replaced the growth of early tribes and kingdoms and the origins and actions of the successive waves of incomers who went to make up the country's 10</span><sup style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>th</sup><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> century population. </span></p>