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The English Rebel – One Thousand Years of Troublemaking from the Normans to the Nineties

From the Peasants` Revolt to the suffragettes, from Oliver Cromwell to Arthur Scargill, “English Rebel” describes a rich and continuous tradition of resistance, rebellion and radicalism, of violent and charismatic individuals with axes to grind, and of social eruptions and political earthquakes that have shaped England`s whole culture and character.The English have a rich and glorious history of making trouble for themselves. One hundred and forty years before the French Revolution, the English executed their king and instituted a radical revolutionary government. In 1215, more than 570 years before the United States ratified its Bill of Rights, England`s barons forced King John to accept the Magna Carta. In 1926 over 1.5 million strikers brought the nation to its knees.An fascinating insight into a parts of English History where battle lines were very clearly, and publicly drawn.

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