In Search of England: Journeys Into the English Past

Summary

Where does the idea of England and Englishness come from? Are there particular moments in the Dark and Middle Ages when we can see it develop? In a series of pieces on Arthur, Alfred, Robin Hood and Athelstan, Michael Wood examines these and other questions. He also writes on a number of places that illuminate the issues: Tinsley Wood near Sheffield, scene of an Anglo-Saxon battle; a farmhouse on Dartmoor, continuously inhabited since Domesday; the rebellious village of Peatling Magna in Leicestershire. This fascinating book offers a potent and revealing account of what is Englishness.