Spanning from the Neolithic age through the present, this lush history offers an immersive look at Great Britain as it navigates the Roman conquest, the Crusades, the Great Fire, the Industrial Revolution, and the Blitz. It is a nation that has always produced larger-than-life individuals, and so here are profiles of Boudicca, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry VIII, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charles Darwin, Queen Victoria, and Winston Churchill. A visual feast, the more than 200 color images include period art, photographs, maps, and contemporary illustrations.