How the Celts saved Britain

Written by Rachel on May 28th, 2009

The second part of this documentary will be on BBC4 at 9pm on 1st June.

Provocative two-part documentary in which Dan Snow blows the lid on the traditional Anglo-centric view of history and reveals how the Irish saved Britain from cultural oblivion during the Dark Ages.

He follows in the footsteps of Ireland’s earliest missionaries as they venture through treacherous barbarian territory to bring literacy and technology to the future nations of Scotland and England.”

from here.

 

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