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The coastline and landscape of what would become modern Britain began to emerge at the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000 years ago. What had been a cold, dry tundra on the north-western edge of Europe grew warmer and wetter as the ice caps melted. The Irish Sea, North Sea and the Channel were all dry land, albeit land slowly being submerged as sea levels rose. But it wasn't until 6,100BC that Britain broke free of mainland Europe for good, during the Mesolithic period -- the Middle Stone Age. It is thought a landslide in Norway triggered one...

I'm looking for a website that sells cheap college textbooks or discount books that will help guide me in reading the earliest written histories of Iceland,Greenland,British Isles & Ireland. I know this is probably a humongous task to undertake but i'll only be reading them one @ a time . Most of the earliest written histories of these countries is in poetry form or "saga's" any help out here would be truly appreciated.I'm trying to design a reading program for myself starting with these countries as a structured pasttime. Thanks!

There is a cold hour just before dawn, when the light is the colour of lead, when the past seems a little closer and a lot more real than it does in the clearer light that comes later in the day. --SNIP-- On that day, IRA gunmen burst into a string of houses that lay along my route to the conference centre and shot dead 14 British officers and intelligence officials. The Ireland of those days was inured to brutality on all sides but there was something about these killings that shocked the Dublin public. Maybe it was the curiously...

WW1 medal records - under threat of being destroyed? Dear List, I just picked up a copy of a magazine and read the editor's column with disbelief. it will affect everyone now and in future who is undertaking research into family members who were involved with WW1. Start of quote: "As we go to press, it has come to my attention that in April the MOD intends to destroy some 6 million records of medals issued to WW1 personnel. I think you will agree that we cannot let them do so. Our military expert Paul Reed has been looking into...