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Reading Wednesday + Shaun the Sheep
Oct. 28th, 2015 11:57 amFirst, for any fans of Shaun, a lovely set of icons - some from the show/film and some of the Shaun in the City statues.
My book was mentioned in a blog post I was reading, one of Dimitra Fimi's, I think, and I thought it looked interesting, so I ordered it from the library. (The modern ability to order books from anywhere in the county over the internet, is definitely one of the wonders of the modern age. :-D)
"The Making of English National Identity" by Krishan Kumar, is very readable, though academic, take on a subject that I find very interesting. What he says makes a lot of sense, at least to this non-expert, and when I read this in the first chapter, I knew he was somebody whose ideas I was likely to be in sympathy with. :-)
"But it was the native English themselves who produced the best example of the genre: W.C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman's wickedly revealing 1066 and All That(1930) - the best book ever written on the English and their history, or what they take to be their history."
My book was mentioned in a blog post I was reading, one of Dimitra Fimi's, I think, and I thought it looked interesting, so I ordered it from the library. (The modern ability to order books from anywhere in the county over the internet, is definitely one of the wonders of the modern age. :-D)
"The Making of English National Identity" by Krishan Kumar, is very readable, though academic, take on a subject that I find very interesting. What he says makes a lot of sense, at least to this non-expert, and when I read this in the first chapter, I knew he was somebody whose ideas I was likely to be in sympathy with. :-)
"But it was the native English themselves who produced the best example of the genre: W.C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman's wickedly revealing 1066 and All That(1930) - the best book ever written on the English and their history, or what they take to be their history."
