David Shukman, Daily Mail 'Mind-blowing, incredibly entertaining stuff' Helen Gordon, New Statesman 'Unusual, funny and provocative...[a] fascinating book' Rupert Sheldrake 'Witty, provocative, persuasive and original. This book brings a blast of fresh air to British history.' Fortean Times `The best re-writing of history since 1066 And All That' The Oldie 'The most outrageous book I have ever read, and one of the funniest.'
In gloriously corrosive prose, M. J. Harper destroys the cherished national myths of the English, the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish and - to demonstrate his lack of national bias - the French. In doing so he also shows that most entries in the Oxford English dictionary are wrong, the whole of British place-name theory is misconceived, Latin is not what it seems, the Anglo-Saxons played no major part in history or language, and Middle English is a wholly imaginary language created by well-meaning but deluded academics. Iconoclastic, unsentimental and truly original, The History of Britain Revealed will change the way you think about history, language and much else besides.
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