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Book review: The Discovery of Britain: An accidental history by Graham Robb

Book review: The Discovery of Britain: An accidental history by Graham Robb

Thursday, February 5, 2026

THE idea for this rather strange book came to Graham Robb in the autumn of 2018, when he and his wife, returning from a cycling holiday in France to their home on the Anglo-Scottish border, were stranded at Preston railway station by a hurricane. ...

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