TY - BOOK ID - 127300359 TI - Island stories : unravelling Britain PY - 1997 SN - 1859841902 9781859841907 PB - London: Verso, DB - UniCat KW - Historiography KW - Great Britain KW - Great Britain UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:127300359 AB - Island Stories is and engrossing journey of discovery into the multiple meanings of national myths, their anchorage in daily life and their common sense of a people's destiny. Raphael Samuel reveals the palimpsest of British National Histories, offering a searching yet affectionate account of the heroes and villains, legends and foibles, cherished by the "four nations" that inhabit the British Isles. ER -