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Introductory background: prehistoric south Britain, by E. G. Bowen.- -The human geography of Roman Britain, by E. W. Gilbert.--The Anglo-Sax on settlement, by S. W. Wooldridge.--The Scandinavian settlement, by Ei lert Ekwall.--The economic geography of England, A.D. 1000-1250, by H. C. Darby.--Fourteenth-century England, by R. A. Pelham.--Medieval forei gn trade: western ports, by D. T. Williams--Medieval foreign trade: eas tern ports, by R. A. Pelham.--Leland’s England, by E. G. R. Taylor.-- Camden’s England, by E. G. R. Taylor.--England in the seventeenth cen tury, by J. N. L. Baker.--The draining of the fens, A.D. 1600-1800, by H. C. Darby.--England in the eighteenth century, by W. G. East.--The gr owth of London, A.D. 1660-1800, by O. H. K. Spate.