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.
As Old as the Hills
Like space, the past is always nearer than we think. As a boy, I knew a woman who once cut Thomas Hardy’s hair. For his part, Hardy knew an old countryman who had set eyes on Napoleon when the...
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