ENGLAND
May 2012
A new book by Harry Mount attributes the particular, phlegmatic character of the English to the nature of England itself
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April 2010
Did the Reformation rescue us from theocracy? Or are we poorer without pilgrims, saints and feasts?
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December 2009
‘England is perceived by my Continental friends as being a country that is all about belonging or not belonging’
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