In four chapters, largely based on and illustrated with archaeological finds and sites, Neil Oliver explains how, as far as is known, the Iron Age Celtic tribes known as the Ancient Britains evolved ...

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The Celtic languages spoken today – namely Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton – all descend from Celtic languages once spoken across Britain and Ireland in antiquity. While the ...

A number of English kings in the post-Roman era were of Irish origin, with several Celtic tombs uncovered in the west and north of Britain. Professor Ken Dark of the University of Reading and Spain’s ...

The origins of the Celtic languages are cloaked in mystery. With desperately few written records, its story survives only in scattered fragments and faint traces. That’s why linguists at Aberystwyth ...

Historian Neil Oliver traces the history and development of Britain from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400. The programme documents how thriving Britain became part of the Roman empire during the Iron Age and how ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women ...

This photo provided by Bournemouth University in January 2025 shows burials being investigated at an Iron Age Celtic cemetery as part of the Durotriges tribe project dig in Dorset, southwest England. ...