The History Of British Costume From The Earliest Period To The Close Of The Eighteenth Century
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780548050477
Subjects: Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain; History; History - General History; History: World
First sentence: RESPECTING the original colonists of Britain-the more adventurous members of the two great nomadic tribes, the Cimmerii or Cimbrians and the Celtae or Celts, who wandered from he shores of the Thracian Bosphorus to the northern coasts of Europe, and passed, some from Gaul across the Channel, others through "the Hazy" or German Ocean, to these islands-a few slight and scattered notices by the Greek and Latin writers, and an occasional passage in the Welsh Triads, form the meagre total of our information.