The most comprehensive vision of pre-Roman Britain ever to be shown on television portrays not crude, uncivilized savages but a highly developed, cultured people.
There's a general misconception that, before to the arrival of the Romans, Britain was a place of wild untamed tribes, united only in their ignorance and barbarity. Yet archaeology is now starting to show that the people who met Caesar's armies were in fact a sophisticated civilization who had as much to lose as gain from subjugation by Rome.
Francis Pryor reveals that the Roman invasion of Britain was not a brutal suppression of indigenous culture but a mutually beneficial experience that the Britons may have actually instigated.
Francis Pryor sheds light on the so-called 'Dark Ages' and finds a world inhabited by Christianised, literate Britons.
Francis focuses his attention on the Anglo-Saxon invasion and argues that the huge political changes that took place in Britain at the time were caused by a shifting of allegiances within this country rather than a violent invasion from elsewhere.