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Anatomy of a Nation - A History of British Identity in 50 Documents (Hardcover)
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Anatomy of a Nation - A History of British Identity in 50 Documents (Hardcover)
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From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman
world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's
mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But, today,
Britain is experiencing an acute trauma of identity, pulled
simultaneously towards its European, Atlantic and wider heritages.
To understand the dislocation and collapse, we must look back: to
Britain's evolution, achievements, complexities and tensions. In a
ground-breaking new take on British identity, historian and
barrister Dominic Selwood explores over 950,000 years of British
history by examining 50 documents that tell the story of what makes
Britain unique. Some of these documents are well-known. Most are
not. Each reveal something important about Britain and its people.
From Anglo-Saxon poetry, medieval folk music and the first
Valentine's Day letter to the origin of computer code, Hitler's
kill list of prominent Britons, the Sex Pistols' graphic art and
the Brexit referendum ballot paper, Anatomy of a Nation reveals a
Britain we have never seen before. People are at the heart of the
story: a female charioteer queen from Wetwang, a plague surviving
graffiti artist, a drunken Bible translator, outlandish Restoration
rakehells, canting criminals, the eccentric fathers of modern
typography and the bankers who caused the finance crisis. Selwood
vividly blends human stories with the selected 50 documents to
bring out the startling variety and complexity of Britain's
achievements and failures in a fresh and incisive insight into the
British psyche. This is history the way it is supposed to be told:
a captivating and entertaining account of the people that built
Britain.
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