Frederic Madden
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Sir Frederic Madden KH was an English palaeographer and librarian.
The Description of Britain
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The Description of Britain, also known by its Latin name De Situ Britanniae, was a literary forgery perpetrated by Charles Bertram on the historians of England. It purported to be a 15th-century manus
Title page of Britannicarum Gentium Historiae Antiquae Scriptores Tres (1757), the first publication to include De Situ Britanniae
Bertram's facsimile of the first page of De Situ Britanniae, with the notes added for Hatcher's 1809 edition.
The Pennines, the ‘backbone of England’