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1. "Beginnings"

Covering the period 3100 BC – 1000 AD. Simon Schama starts his story in the stone age village of Skara Brae, Orkney. Over the next four thousand years Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Danes, and Christian missionaries arrive, fight, settle and leave their mark on what will become the nations of Britain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_Britain_(TV_series)#1._.22Beginnings.22