Convergence or Divergence? Britain and the Continent.

History Today | January 1, 1996| | Copyright

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* In 1962 Hugh Gaitskell called Britain's bid to enter what was then the Common Market 'the end of Britain as an independent nation [sic] ... the end of a thousand years of history'. The absurdity of such retrospective nationalisation and provincialisation of British history, until recently shared and taught by many historians, is confirmed by the two books under review. The fourteen essays in Nigel Saul's England in Europe 1066-1453, by Anthony Goodman, R.R. Davies and Malcolm Vale among others, show the strength of cultural, religious ...

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