Synopsis
The slow process that Roman Britannia shifted into Anglo-Saxon Britain.
- Programme: A History of Britain by Simon Schama
- Series: 1
- Episode: Beginnings
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2000
- History
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