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The Shortest History of England

Paperback • 2021 • English

The Shortest History of England

By J. M. Hawes

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About the book

In The Shortest History of England, James Hawes journeys from Caesar to Brexit via Conquest, Empire and world war and discovers an England very different to the standard vision. The stable island fortress, stubbornly independent, the begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, is riven by an ancient fault line that pre-dates even the Romans; its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbours, whether the English like it or not; and, for the past 1,000 years, it has harboured a c...Show more

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9781910400999

Publisher

Old Street Publishing

Published year

2021

Language

English

Original title

The Shortest History of England

Format

Paperback

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