BOF wrote:O. i suggest you watch David Dimbleby's excellent series the seven ages of Britain.. you might actually learn something of the turmoils of that country, one you lived in and in the middle of its historic area too, to broaden your horizons a bit wider that the old colonialists diatribe.
The oldest surviving complete Bible in the world was made by Monks in Jarrow.
The Bayeux tapestry was made in Canterbury by nuns after the norman conquest as a form of humiliation.
Did you know that one of the knights that murdered Thomas a Beckett Lived not far from your abode in the Cotswolds?
History is changing the more we find out the truth about it - that which we know isnt always so...
And your son is after all British..
Not just my son, but by 'virtue' of the British Empire, I too was born British. I'm not slating that which can't be helped. Tony didn't have to apologise for the slave trade. But, when I go into the "British Museum" for some history; guess what I am confronted with?
I love the Scots, the English, the Irish and Welsh (in no particular order ) of the British isles .... it's their mish-mash notion of Britishness which they get confused with, which irks.