# 1990 VHS • Touring the British Isles Collection 60 FPS

A multi-part documentary collection narrated in a warm, literary style, covering England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland across approximately three hours. The England section traces the island's history from Celtic and Roman Britain through Viking invasions, the Norman Conquest of 1066, and the Channel Tunnel (described as sparking endless English debate). London receives the most detailed treatment: Tower of London, Tower Bridge, St. Paul's Cathedral (Christopher Wren buried inside, chosen for Prince Charles' wedding), Houses of Parliament and Guy Fawkes, Westminster Abbey including the Coronation Chair and Poets' Corner, Samuel Johnson's house, Robert Browning's Wimpole Street courtship of Elizabeth Barrett, Oscar Wilde in Chelsea, Buckingham Palace and the Changing of the Guard, Trafalgar Square, the Bank of England, the British Museum, Madame Tussauds (originating with Marie Antoinette's guillotined head), and the Jack the Ripper East End. Beyond London: Oxford (John Wesley's Methodism, Lewis Carroll), Blenheim Palace and Winston Churchill's American blood and Iroquois ancestry, Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare's life, Warwick Castle, and Coventry's bombed and rebuilt cathedral. The Ireland section covers the Republic's history from prehistoric Newgrange and the Celtic high kings of Tara through St. Patrick's 432 AD mission, Viking founding of Dublin and other cities, Strongbow the Norman, Oliver Cromwell's massacres, and Daniel O'Connell the Liberator. Regions visited…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1990
- By: The Vista Group®
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-TouringtheBritishIslesCollection1990)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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