It is the best known frontier in the entire Roman Empire and stands as
a reminder of the past glories of one of the world's greatest
civilisations.
Its origins lie in a visit by the Emperor Hadrian to Britain in AD 122
when he ordered the wall to be built to mark the northern boundary of
his Empire and "to separate the Romans from the Barbarian"'.
Northern and Insular Scots
Dialects of English Series
This book is concerned with the Scots dialects of northern Scotland and
the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland; dialects spoken by a wide
variety of people living very different lives in divergent natural environments.
The Longest War: Northern Ireland's Troubled History
This highly readable exploration of the central issues and debates
about Northern Ireland sets them in the historical context of hundreds
of years of conflict. It tackles many questions, such as: What accounts
for the perpetuation of ethnic and religious conflict in Ireland? Why
has armed violence proven so hard to control? Who are the major figures
and issues in the conflict? Can we expect more 'Northern Irelands' in
the future?
When Abraham Lincoln met the writer Harriet Beecher Stowe after the start of the American Civil War, he reportedly said to her: 'So you're the little lady whose book started this big war'. Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, is credited as fuelling the cause to abolish slavery in the northern half of the United States in direct response to its continuation in the South.
