The English: a portrait of a people 978-0-141-92239-3, 0141922397

Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are t

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English Year 2007

The English: a portrait of a people
978-0-141-92239-3, 0141922397

'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about&

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Since his death in 1847, Felix Mendelssohn’s music and personality have been both admired and denigrated to extraordinar

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The story of Yorkshire immigrants, what they left behind, and what they brought to North America. Portrait of an Engli

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A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller What kind of country is England today? What does it mean to be Eng

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