Anna Massey – This Sceptred Isle – Vol.1 CD (1998) Audio Quality Guaranteed

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Tracklist:
1-1 – Once Upon A Time We Were One Land 1:23
1-2 – 55BC – Julius Caesar Looks Toward Britain 2:31
1-3 – Britain In 55BC – Celts, Druids 2:00
1-4 – Julius Caesar Decides To Invade 2:25
1-5 – Caesar Invades 1:59
1-6 – The Romans Are Beaten By The Weather 2:38
1-7 – 54BC – Caesar Returns, But The Britains Now Have A Leader – Cassiballaunus 2:14
1-8 – Caesar Wins His Victory But Withdraws From The Island 2:57
1-9 – 43BC – The Emporor Claudius Orders a New Roman Invasion 2:20
1-10 – The Britains Fight Back – Cynobellinus (Cymbeline) And Caractacus 1:02
1-11 – Claudius Arrives – The Battle of Colchester – Caractacus Becomes A Hero 3:53
1-12 – The Romans Take Charge 0:50
1-13 – Boudicca (Boadicea) 1:45
1-14 – Boudicca Advances On London 1:57
1-15 – Boudicca Defeated 2:05
1-16 – The Beginning Of Roman Rule 0:36
1-17 – 410AD – The Romans Leave 3:00
1-18 – Saxons Begin To Invade – Aelle Becomes The First Bretwalda 2:02
1-19 – King Arthur 3:57
1-20 – 565AD – St Columba Comes To Iona 1:48
1-21 – Penalties For Sinners 1:39
1-22 – Who Were The English? – Saxons, Angles And Jutes 3:05
1-23 – North-South Divide And The Origins Of The Landed Gentry 3:55
1-24 – 595AD – Pope Gregory Sends Augustine To England 2:52
1-25 – Augustine Converts King Ethelbert To Christianity 5:21
2-1 – 616AD – Edwin Becomes King of Northumbria And Becomes Christian 3:44
2-2 – 633 – The Last Battle Between Britains And Saxons – Edwin Killed 1:59
2-3 – 663 – Divisions In The Church – The Synod Of Whitby 1:21
2-4 – Life In Saxon England – King Offa 3:58
2-5 – Offa’s Dyke 1:04
2-6 – 735 – The Venerable Bede’s England 1:21
2-7 – 789 – The Vikings 4:43
2-8 – More Saxon Invaders – King Egbert And Ivar The Boneless 2:56
2-9 – 871 – The Young Alfred – The Battle of Ashdown 3:08
2-10 – Alfred Becomes King Of The Wessex 2:12
2-11 – 878 – Alfred Flees The Danes – Burns The Cakes – Defeats Guthrum 4:07
2-12 – Alfred’s Last Battle 5:50
2-13 – 899 – Death Of Alfred – Edwin Becomes King 3:35
2-14 – 924 – Athelstan, First King Of England 0:54
2-15 – 937 – Battle of Brunanburh – Death Of Athelstan 2:40
2-16 – Life In Saxon England 1:31
2-17 – The Vikings Again – Eric Bloodaxe 1:52
2-18 – 955 – 12 Year Old Edgar Becomes King 2:41
2-19 – St Dunstan 2:10
2-20 – 955 – Death Of Edgar – Murder of Edward The Martyr 2:03
2-21 – Ethelred The Unready – Sweyn, King of Denmark Invades 3:32
2-22 – 1011 – Sweyn Returns 3:07
2-23 – 1016 – Death of Ethelred 1:38
2-24 – King Canute 3:56
3-1 – 1035 – Canute And His Sons 2:51
3-2 – 1043 – Coronation Of Edward The Confessor 1:34
3-3 – 1051 – Godwyn And A Power Crisis At Court 2:38
3-4 – 1066 – Death Of Edward The Confessor 2:29
3-5 – From The Death of Edward To The Battle of Hastings 3:07
3-6 – The Prospects For King Harold 0:54
3-7 – Claims To The English Throne – The Battle Of Stamford Bridge 3:37
3-8 – Harold Arrives At Senlac Hill 1:09
3-9 – William Of Normandy 2:20
3-10 – Harold And William – The Bayeux Tapestry 2:09
3-11 – The Battle of Hastings 4:43
3-12 – William Follows Up His Victory 2:03
3-13 – William’s Coronation In Westminster Abbey 1:05
3-14 – William Struggles For Contro; of England 2:08
3-15 – Rebellion – Hereward The Wake 3:14
3-16 – The Normans In England 4:13
3-17 – 1086 – The Doomesday Book 3:35
3-18 – Willam The Conqueror’s Achievement 1:21
3-19 – William’s Problems Back In Normandy 2:02
3-20 – :Life in Norman England 1:30
3-21 – Death Of The Conqueror 5:17