Just over a century ago, Our Island Story entranced a nation's children by telling their history in stories. Short, simply written chapters, packed with living characters and thrilling action  and illustrated with vivid colour pictures  illuminate all the main events from Britain's earliest days to the end of Victoria's reign. And its glorious fusion of myth and legend with sober fact  Canute and King Arthur with Cromwell and the Indian Mutiny  is as seductive now as it ever was.