Roman Britain and the English Settlements

Abstract

THIS volume on Roman Britain and the English settlements is the first (though not the first to be published) in a series of fourteen covering the history of England, edited by Prof. G. N. Clark. The full-dress treatment of the theme commences with Caesar's invasion, but this is preceded by a thirty-page introduction in which the geographical background and the prehistory of Britain are sketched in. Prof. Collingwood's contribution carries us through the Roman period into the fifth century; there Mr. J. N. L. Myres picks up the story, discussing that same century from the Anglo-Saxon point of view, and then the general problems of the English Settlement.

Roman Britain and the English Settlements

By Prof. R. G. Collingwood J. N. L. Myres. (The Oxford History of England.) Pp. xxvi + 515. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1936.) 12s. 6d. net.