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BRITANNIA
100 DOCUMENTS THAT SHAPED A NATION |
By: |
Graham Stewart, Ghost |
Format: |
Hardback |

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ISBN 10: |
1843549980 |
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9781843549987 |
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Publisher: |
ATLANTIC BOOKS |
Pub. date: |
1 September, 2011 |
Edition: |
Main - Atlantic Edition |
Pages: |
448 |
Description: |
A compellingly original illustrated chronicle of two thousand years of British history, recounted via the stories of one hundred landmark documents that changed the face of Britain. |
Synopsis: |
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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100 integrated images and 3x4pp colour plates |
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UK |
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Atlantic Books |
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