The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Trouble-making from the Normans to the Nineties
458pp plus 8pp plate illustrations. Red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. 8vo. Hint of tanning to both pages and dust jacket, else fine. Horspool exposes the British as a nation of rebels, exploding popular myths of national identity, he traces the history of rebellion and resistance in England - from Magna Carta to the Interregnum, from the Peasants' Revolt to Peterloo, from Robert Catesby to Arthur Scargill, Horspool examines those moments in history upon which the fate of the nation turned.
