A History of Britain – Simon Schama Express Levering

‘The British wars began on the morning of July 23 1637, and the first missiles launched were stools. They flew down the nave of St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh and their targets were the Dean and Bishop of Edinburgh…’ The first round of the British wars had been fired, and fired on grounds of faith. over the next 200 years, other battles on other battlegrounds would be waged and would rage-both at home and abroad, on sea and on land, up and down the length of burgeoning Britain, and across three contine…