An Island Called Britain: Before the First King — Fexingo History

On a cold November morning in 1066, a Norman duke named William watched his cavalry charge up Senlac Hill near Hastings. But this episode doesn't start there. It goes back — way back — to the moment when the land we call Britain was still attached to Europe, before the English Channel even existed. We meet the first people who crossed over on foot, hunting mammoths across a frozen plain. Then the Beaker folk, who brought bronze and a taste for ritual. Then the Celts, who gave the island its first recognizable tribes — the Iceni, the Catuvellauni, the Trinovantes — and fought Julius Caesar when he came looking for glory. Caesar landed twice in 55 and 54 BCE, but he left without conquering. So what was Britain like before Rome turned it into a province? We stand on the chalk downs of what will one day be called England and look at a landscape already ancient before the first Roman legion arrived. This is the deep past — the foundation beneath every castle, crown, and constitution that will follow.#History #FexingoHistory #Britain #PrehistoricBritain #Stonehenge #BeakerFolk #CelticBritain #Iceni #JuliusCaesar #RomanInvasion #55BCE #54BCE #AncientHistory #BritishIsles #MammothHunters #SenlacHill #NormanConquest #1066 #EnglandHistory #BritishEmpireBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-history-of-england-kings-empires-and-the-birth-of-britain-fexingo-history--6985238/support.