Cover
Title Page
Imprint Page
Contents
Preface by John Crace
Introduction
The Battle of Maldon
Domesday Book
The Tattooed Heart
Malory and King Arthur: The Literary Invention of England
The Literature of the People
The Bloudie Crosse
The Brexit Boadicea
Boadicea in Stone
Enter the Maybot, Clanking
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum: I Smell the Blood of an Englishman!
Shakespeare: ‘This England’
The Oxford Book of English Verse
School Songsters
Brexiteers, Buccaneers, Musketeers; or, ‘Up Yours, Señors!’
Dickens, Anti-Brexiteer Extraordinaire
Our National Anthem
Gibbon: The Congenital British Non Serviam
Ivanhoe and the Norman Yoke
Jane Austen’s ‘England’
W. E. Henley
Rivers of Blood Wash over Our Green and Pleasant Land
Brexit’s Green and Pleasant Land
A. E. Housman and Thomas Hardy
DNB/OED
Land of Hope and Glory
Orwell: Quarter-French, Wholly English
Rhodes Must Fall. Kipling Must Go. Buchan Goes On and On
Kipling Again
Nigel Farage’s Favourite Novel
King Solomon’s (Not Africa’s) Mines
Lady Chatterley’s Lover: ‘Old England’ is Gone Forever
The Amis Objection
Philip Larkin: The Greatest English Poet of Our Time
Why the Brexiteer Loves Sherlock
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (and Jeeves)
The End of Jeeves
Invasion by Immigration – From Calais, Mars or Wherever
Dracula: Illegal Immigrant
God Loves England (Does He Not?)
Flashman
Goldfinger
The Poison Cabinet
Lost Englands
Virginia Woolf’s Farewell to England (and the World)
The Queen and I
The Children of Men
London Fields
England, England
Take to the Boats!
McEwan’s Objection
Hail Hilary!
The Satanic Verses: ‘Not English!’
Epilogue
References
Acknowledgements