(Click or mouseover (or tap on touchscreens) the loudspeaker icon or text and the main text will begin to read out. Mlouseout to pause (or tap away from the text on a mobile device) )

Arriving


In which you learn how Britain was once connected to the continent by land, how ice sheets came and went, and how many different people lived here before our ancestors...

(By the way: the area called 'Britain' here is used as a shorthand for what we now call the United Kingdom)