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Timothy Graham's illustrated lecture on the history, art and symbolism of the Book of Kells, a medieval Celtic decorated gospel manuscript. Sponsored by Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, UNM Continuing Education. Watch the illustrated lecture on the Book of Kells Listen to the lecture

The Dark Origins of Britain is a landmark series dealing with the greatest unresolved mystery in our history - how the modern nations of England, Wales and Scotland were born out of the chaos of the Dark Ages. In 400 AD, when Roman power collapsed in Britain, we were a province inhabited by Celtic peoples speaking a mixture of early Welsh and Latin. But only two hundred years later, the foundations of a new, Anglo-Saxon, English-speaking nation were being laid.