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It had all been a storm in a teacup.
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Historians like a quiet life, and usually they get it. For the most part, history moves at a deliberate pace, working its changes subtly and incrementally. Nations and their institutions harden into shape or crumble away like sediment carried by the flow of a sluggish river. English history in particular seems the work of a temperate community, seldom shaken by convulsions. But there are moments when history is unsubtle; when change arrives in a violent rush, decisive, bloody, traumatic; as a tr
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― A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603
― A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603
