Britain before Brexit : historical essays on Britain and Europe /
Bernard Porter.
- xx, 256 pages
I. Introduction : Britain and the world -- Britain & Europe : 40,000 BCE to the present -- Empire -- II. Britons and Europe -- Britons in Europe : the nineteenth century -- Britain and asylum -- III. An Orcadian abroad -- Samuel Laing, traveller and philosopher -- The philistine -- IV. War in Europe -- World War I : Gallipoli -- World War II : Churchill chapter -- The home front -- On the margins -- V. Peace --- Hope and decline -- Thatcher's time -- VI. What now? -- Secrets and lies -- The battle for Brexit -- Epilogue : national identity.