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Book review: The Discovery of Britain: An accidental history by Graham Robb

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (403+ words) Friday 06 February 2026 Ian Bradley considers British history in brief Robb recalls from his own Church of England primary school “the soul-withering tedium of the vicar’s half-hour, or more to the point, one-thousand-eight-hundred-seconds-long homilies”, and he has a long section towards…...