Robert Tombs is a fellow St John’s College, Cambridge and the author of Paris Commune, 1871.
David and Helen talk to the historians Robert Tombs and Robert Saunders about the history of England and the future of the Union.
Until our recent discontents England had never succumbed to doctrinal nationalism. Absent from English history was the obsessiveness found in many countries across Europe about the recovery of...
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