Chichester Harbour in the south or England is the focus of this documentary as a potential landing site for invading Romans.
“It’s nice and sheltered a wonderful natural harbour which would have allowed large numbers of men to be disembarked.
Chichester Harbour in the south or England is the focus of this documentary as a potential landing site for invading Romans.
“It’s nice and sheltered a wonderful natural harbour which would have allowed large numbers of men to be disembarked.
The legend of King Arthur has come to be an integral part of the history of Britain with his magical sword and has spawned many movies.
The myth of the sword Excalibur holds a clue to what really happened in Britain A.D. The story of King Arthur is not a happy one. It involves an illegitimate boy raised by a magician called Merlin.
Our perception of Britishness has come from many years of British Identity formed by our flawed knowledge of historic British people.
Whether we hark back to Arthur or the Anglo-Saxons we Brits have always used history to create our British Identity. The trouble is that these identities are based on a wholly imagined past.
The Venerable Bede was a nonkk from Tynside was a learned man and wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
In fact, Christianity is big in the late Roman period. St Augustine arrived in a country that already knew about Christianity. And when Augustine arrives, it is by invitation.
Recent archeaological evidens shows that the Anglo Saxon myth of invasion is just a story that has beguiled us for many years.
As an island people, we Brits have been obsessed with the idea of invasion. And the story of the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons has long been accepted as a part of our history.
A large number of lacerated seal carcasses have been found near Sable Island. The unknown killer, dubbed the Seal Ripper is being hunted.
Zoe Lucas “The wounds were absolutely clean-edged as if made with the knife, no jagged edges, no serrated marks along the wound edge. And, in most cases, no puncture marks at all.”
In the triumph of the vertebrates, David Attenborough explores the stages animals evolved before developing the backbone that is essential.
David Attenborough embarks on a journey to unravel the triumph of the vertebrates. This episode details their origins which lie in primitive, ancient fish.
Here, we investigate the early evolutionary steps that enabled mammals to become the most successful group of animals on the planet.
Marine biologists at the University of New England are studying a group of fish with a very ancient ancestry. They build their skeletons with the same strong material that formed the gristly rod as the first vertebrates – cartilage. They are the sharks, skates and rays.
As evolution began to develop mammals, learning to breathe was essential if the reptiles were going to leave the water and walk on land.
Today, the biggest amphibian alive is this creature – the Chinese giant salamander. It breathes partly through its skin which has these long flaps on it, and that absorbs oxygen from the water… but it also breathes air.
There are three groups of mammals the monotremes, marsupials and placentals and it is thought they appeared 160 million years ago.
This opossum is a marsupial that lives in South America and it has no pouch. It’s young seal their mouths so tightly around the teats, they stay firmly attached. This may well be how the early marsupials, like Sinodelphys, carried their young around.