The English

The acclaimed author of On Royalty explores the mysteries of English identity in this “witty, argumentative book bursting with good things” ( The Daily Telegraph ). A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Being English used to be easy. As the dominant culture in a country that dominated an empire that dominated the world, they had little need to examine themselves and ask who they were. But something has happened over the past century. A new self-confidence seems to have taken hold in Wales and Scotla