The Shortest History of England Author:James Hawes Discovers an England very different to the standard vision. England's fortress, stubbornly independent, the begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, is riven by an ancient fault-line that predates even the Romans; its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbours. For the past 1,000 years it has harboured a class system ... more »like nowhere else on Earth.« less