Guy de la Bedoyere
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Roman Britain: A New History
6 editions — published 2006 — |
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The Romans for Dummies
13 editions — published 2006 — |
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The Real Lives of Roman Britain
— published 2015 |
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Defying Rome: The Rebels of Roman Britain
2 editions — published 2003 — |
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Gods with Thunderbolts: Religion in Roman Britain
2 editions — published 2002 — |
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Pottery in Roman Britain
— published 2000 |
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Castles: Great Britain, Ireland and Europe
— published 2006 |
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Castles: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Europe
— published 2006 |
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Ancient History Box Set for Dummies
by Guy de la Bedoyere , Charlotte Booth , Stephen Batchelot — published 2009 |
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Britain from the Air
— published 2006 |
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“The Greeks, at least by the fourth century BC, knew Britain as Albion. Originally applied to a Spanish tribe called the ‘Albiones’, the term was later adopted for Britain, perhaps because of its similarity to the Greek word for whiteness, alphos, thanks to the white chalk cliffs of the southeast coast. Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, says that Britain had ‘previously’ been called Albion, so by then the name must have fallen out of common use.2 By the time Britain began to be referred to more frequently, the Greeks called it Prettannia, or Brettannia.3 What does seem certain is that in the fourth century BC, Pytheas of Massilia (Marseilles) sailed to Britain. Pytheas wrote down his experiences, but these only survive as incidental third-hand references by later writers. Most”
― Guy de la Bedoyere, Roman Britain: A New History
― Guy de la Bedoyere, Roman Britain: A New History
“The ability of Neolithic peoples in Britain to coordinate the movement of stone into monumental tombs and circles by the fourth millennium BC, quite apart from the cultural and religious motivations to do so, shows that societies in Britain had already evolved into communities capable of sustained cooperative activity. The production and migration of pottery and stone axes is evidence”
― Guy de la Bedoyere, Roman Britain: A New History
― Guy de la Bedoyere, Roman Britain: A New History
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