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Before the industrial revolution most people in Britain lived in the country and worked on the land. Since Roman times there had been towns and cities but compared to modern ones they were very small. Before the Roman period (from the mid 1st century AD) there were no towns or cities although some people lived grouped together in settlements, often within hillforts.

Here some aspects of everyday life of people of the prehistoric, Roman and medieval periods are described.

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