Little More than an Extension of France
Hugo Young: The British Isles, 6 January 2000
The Isles: A History
by Norman Davies.
Macmillan, 1222 pp., £30, November 1999,9780333763704 Show More
by Norman Davies.
Macmillan, 1222 pp., £30, November 1999,
“... to be found, for example, in the brilliant work of Norman Davies’s own tutor at Oxford, A.J.P. Taylor, or give the reader the same tiresome sense that he is being got at in ways he cannot contest. Instead, the record of two millennia and more is bound together by an important and forgotten thesis. Celtic history, together with the sometimes over-copious ... ”