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The Shortest History of England
  • ISBN: 9781910400999
  • Pages: 240
  • Publisher: Old Street Publishing
  • Binding: Paperback

The Shortest History of England

James Hawes
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As Hawes journeys from Caesar to Brexit via Conquest, Empire and War, he tells a profound new tale of England.

Our island fortress is riven by an ancient fault-line that pre-dates the Romans; its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbours, whether we like it or not; and for 1,000 years it has harboured a class system like nowhere else on Earth.

There has never been a better time to understand why England is the way it is – and there is no better guide.



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