This is the first of
the Penguin Monarchs because although Athelstan was not the first
person to rule all of what is now England since his rule England has
not been divided (you might cite the Civil War, but that was a
contest about who should rule England, but that England should be
exist as a unit of government).
Yet of the names in
the list of Penguin Monarchs his is the only one I was not familiar
with, some of his predecessors are better known. How have the English
misplaced their origin as a nation?
Looking back over a
thousand years so much is strange, and yet the power-play and the
politics are not really so far removed for our own age.
These slim volumes
are educational and accessible.
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