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Britannia - 100 Documents that Shaped a Nation (Hardcover, Main - Atlantic Edition)
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Britannia - 100 Documents that Shaped a Nation (Hardcover, Main - Atlantic Edition)
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In Britannia Graham Stewart traces two thousand years of an
island's story - from Roman province to twenty-first century
European nation-state - through one hundred historic documents.
From the eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels to the great testament
of Norman bureaucracy, the Domesday Book, and from the designs for
the Union Jack in 1606 to Neville Chamberlain's 1938 Munich
agreement with Hitler, the documents selected embrace a wide range
of national endeavours: politics and religion, warfare and
diplomacy, economics and the law, science and invention, literature
and journalism, as well as sport and popular music. Thus the first
edition of The Times rubs shoulders with the rules of the newly
formed Marylebone Cricket Club; the designs for Stephenson's Rocket
with the Catholic Emancipation Act; Lord Kitchener's iconic First
World War recruitment poster with Clause Four of the Labour Party's
constitution; and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album cover with
Britain's accession treaty to the European Economic Community.
These are documents that not only defined their own eras, but which
continue to resonate today.
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