Who Do the English Think They Are? (eBook)

From the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit

Derek J. Taylor (Autor)

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2017 | 2. Auflage
320 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-8488-1 (ISBN)

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What makes the English so . . . English?
The English are often confused about who they are. They say 'British' when they mean 'English', and 'English' when they should say 'British.' And when England, more than the rest of the UK, voted to leave the EU, polls showed national identity was a big concern. So it's time the English sorted out in their minds what it means to be English. A nation's character is moulded by its history.
In Who Do the English Think They Are? historian and journalist Derek J. Taylor travels the length and breadth of the country to find answers. He discovers that the first English came from Germany, and then in the later Middle Ages almost became French. He tracks down the origins of English respect for the rule of law, tolerance and a love of political stability. And, when he reaches Victorian times, he investigates the arrogance and snobbishness that have sometimes blighted English behaviour. Finally, Taylor looks ahead and asks: faced with uncharted waters post-Brexit, what is it in their national character that will help guide the English people now?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.8.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: angles • anglo saxons • Anglo-Saxons • arrogance • |back to backs • back to backs • back to backs, slum housing, bamburgh castle, Liverpool docks, Epsom, Epsom downs, iwm, imperial war museum, duxford, dover, birmingham • Bamburgh Castle • barrow hill roundhouse • |battle of hastings • battle of hastings, sussex, deerhurst, Gloucestershire, farne islands, Northumberland, the Vikings, angles, Saxons, Jerusalem pub, Nottingham, the trip to Jerusalem, the normans, norman conquest, Runnymede, • battle of trafalgar • Behaviour • Birmingham • Brexit • British • Cambridgeshire • Character • deerhurst • Dover • Duxford • English • English identity • Epsom • Epsom downs • EU • Farne Islands • From the anglo-saxons to Brexit • From the anglo-saxons to Brexit, Brexit, anglo Saxons, british, English, national identity, EU, middle ages, origins, law, tolerance, politics, Victorian, arrogance, snobbery, behaviour, character, post-brexit, • Gloucestershire • HMS Victory • House of Commons • Houses of Parliament • Imperial War Museum • IWM • Jerusalem pub • Law • Liverpool Docks • longthorpe • Magna Carta • Middle Ages • national identity • Nelson • newby hall • Norman Conquest • Northumberland • North Yorkshire • Nottingham • Origins • Oxford • Politics • Portsmouth • Post-Brexit • runnymede • Saxons • slum housing • snobbery • Stow-on-the-Wold • Stratford-upon-Avon • |Surrey • Surrey • Surrey, magna carta, longthorpe, Cambridgeshire, house of commons, westminster, houses of parliament, oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, William Shakespeare, stow-on-the-wold, newby hall, north Yorkshire, hms victory, nelson, battle of Trafalgar, Portsmouth, barrow hill roundhouse, • Sussex • the normans • the trip to Jerusalem • The Vikings • Tolerance • Victorian • Warwickshire • Westminster • William Shakespeare
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-8488-0 / 0750984880
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-8488-1 / 9780750984881