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Every Popular History Bestseller That Hits American Bookstores Two Years After Its UK Debut
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Every Popular History Bestseller That Hits…

Daniel Lavery
Jan 4, 2020
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Every Popular History Bestseller That Hits American Bookstores Two Years After Its UK Debut
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The game, you see, is to pick a royal house or cadet family branch and argue that they secretly invented England; before whatever team you’ve picked England cannot be said to truly exist, no matter how convoluted the reasoning. The previous kings styled themselves too French, or too Mercian, or thought about Spain more than was appropriate, and no one was England yet.

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