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Wool, wheat and wet weather

Robert Winder discovers the springs of Englishness back in the Middle Ages. But isn’t that going too far?

issue 12 August 2017

  • The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness

    Robert Winder

    Little, Brown, pp. 471

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