Two huge points in this book’s favour, well three, if you count the TV series but for the other two, firstly it’s telling English history from one place which gives the history great strength, a backbone if you like. Secondly it is involving the people who live there so that this history is not static on the page it is being rediscovered and reinterpreted by the people of the village. And really, there is a fourth point in its favour, it’s a project led by Michael Wood who manages the balance between popular and academic history so expertly.
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