The Shortest History of England

James Hawes, author of the bestselling Shortest History of Germany, discovers an England very different from the standard vision. The stable island fortress, stubbornly independent, begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, is riven by an ancient fault-line that predates even the Romans. Its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbours - and for a thousand years it has harboured a class system like nowhere else on Earth. There has never been a better time to understand why England is the way it is, and there is no better guide