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Colley, Linda
Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707 - 1837
undergraduate, postgraduate level
Yale UP: 02 1992
432pp 234 x 156: 70 illustrations, index
Dewey class: 941.07
Recounts how a new British nation was invented in the wake of the Act of Union between England and Wales and Scotland in 1707. Colley describes how a succession of major wars with Catholic France served as both a threat and a tonic, forcing the peoples of Britain into a closer union.
Hardback ISBN:0 300 05737 7 £22.50

Powell, Michael
A Canterbury Tale
general level
Technicolor Distribution: 1944
Video 119mins
Four people uprooted by the war are drawn towards Canterbury, and discover what they couldn't find in peacetime. Hailed as a most suggestive and profound study of Englishness. For Sale.
Video ISBN:6200573891 Price on application

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