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The Great Tours: England, Scotland, and Wales

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Get an insider’s take on the real Great Britain: where to go, where to avoid, and what are the must-see sites you’ve never heard of.

Syllabus

01: Welcome to Britain
02: Prehistoric Britain
03: Roman Britain
04: Anglo-Saxon and Viking Britain
05: Britain’s Medieval Castles
06: Britain’s Medieval Cathedrals
07: Tudor Britain
08: Magna Carta and Civil War
09: Enlightenment Britain
10: Industrial Britain
11: Victorian Britain
12: Twentieth-Century Britain
13: Edinburgh and Glasgow
14: Wild Scotland: Beyond Edinburgh and Glasgow
15: North Wales
16: Cardiff and South Wales
17: The North of England
18: The English Midlands
19: East Anglia
20: England’s West Country
21: The Museums of London
22: London’s Streets and Parks
23: Buckingham Palace and Parliament
24: Oxford and Cambridge
25: Literary Britain: Chaucer and Shakespeare
26: Literary Britain: The Romantics
27: Literary Britain: Poets and Novelists
28: Literary Britain: The 20th Century
29: Artistic Britain: Painters and Sculptors
30: Britain’s Estates and Gardens
31: Legacy of the British Empire
32: Seafaring Britain
33: Britain’s War Memorials
34: Hiking England, Scotland, and Wales
35: Britain’s Sporting Tradition
36: How to Think about Visiting Britain
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Patrick N. Allitt

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