Our Island Story, Volume 1 - Early History of Great Britain. Written by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall. Read by David Thorn. Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins. Suggested ages: 9 and up. Description: Volume One of a five part series telling The Story of Great Britain from its earliest beginnings to World War I. Our Island Story, originally published in 1905 and later updated, details the history of Britain up to World War I (including some myths and legends associated with British history). Author H. E. Marshall based the book on her answers to her children's questions about the history of their "home island" (Great Britain).

Table of Contents:

1. The Stories of Albion and Brutus

2. The Coming of the Romans

3. The Romans Come Again

4. How Caligula Conquered Britain, and how Caractacus Refused to be Conquered

5. The Story of a Warrior Queen

6. The Last of the Romans

7. The Story of St. Alban

8. Vortigern and King Constans

9. The Story of the Coming of Hengist and Horsa

10. Hengist's Treachery

11. The Story of How The Giant's Dancer was Brought to Britain

12. The Coming of Arthur

13. The Founding of the Round Table

14. The Story of Gregory and the Pretty Children

15. How King Alfred Learned to Read

16. Kind Alfred in the Cowherd's Cottage

17. More About Alfred the Great

18. Ethelred the Unready

19. How Edmund Ironside Fought for the Crown

20. Canute and the Waves

21. Edward the Confessor