Joan Bridge-Taylor is a retired university tutor who finds the history of her country fascinating and is unashamedly patriotic.Brtain has so much to be proud of but the life we enjoy today was not won easily and must not be valued lightly.She wrote this book as a tribute to our ancestors who endjured serfdom, diseases, plagues, oppression, revolutions and wars to bequeath us our heritage. It is a history that should be learned with pride as it is thanks to them that we are who we are.