Britannia 100 Documents that Shaped a Nation – Graham Stewart Meest Verkocht

Graham Stewart traces 2,000 years of an island’s story–from Roman province to 21st century European nation-state–through 100 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 endeavors: politics and religion, warfare and diplomacy, economics and the law, science a…