A Short History of British Civilisation – Adrian Nicolescu

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A Short History of British Civilisation, From the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century This book has arisen out of my love of Britain and of almost everything British. Of course, I cannot say with Charles Churchill Be England what she will / With all her faults, she is my country still ("Farewell"), as England is not my country of origin, and not even my country of permanent adoption. And I could only go along halfway (not all the way) with Michael Flanders and Donald Swann when they said The English, the English, the English are best! / I wouldn’t give tuppence for all of the rest ("Song of Patriotic Prejudice"). This is simply because in my love of genealogy and heraldry, I love them equally well: the Lion, the Dragon and the Unicorn, and all they stand for. …