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Here at previous is a history of Britain that was created to entertain as well as inform and that will please the armchair traveler, the tourist, or maybe about anyone enthusiastic about history. No folks have engendered quite so much acclaim or earned much censure as the British: extolled as the Athenians of modern times, yet hammered for their self-satisfaction and hypocrisy. But their history is a magnificent one. The guiding theory of this book's heretical approach is the fact that "history is not everything that took place but what's worth keeping in mind about the past". Thus its chapters package mainly with "Memorable Background" in blocks of the time over the decades. The final chapter, "The Royal Soap Opera", recounts the achievements, personalities, and idiocies of the royal family because the appearance of William the Conqueror in 1066. Spiced with dozens of entertaining cartoons from Punch and other publications, English Background will be a welcome and amusing head to of a land that has always fascinated Anglophiles and Anglophobes similarly.
