The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Troublemaking,...
Rated • 2 reviews • history, books, england, rebellion, millenium • timesonline.co.uk
For some it is a country of civil peace, gradual change and law-abiding apoliticism; for others it is a place of violent disorder, in which every popular hero "from Robin Hood to Ronnie Biggs" is a criminal. David Horspool, the history editor of The Times Literary Supplement, has spent much of his career holding the ring in disputes between English historians and now he weighs in with his own interpretation that sweeps across a millennium of history to survey various kinds of rebellion.
