Housman Country
Why is it that for many people ''England'' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the ''England'' for which people fought in two world wars? What is about the English that makes them constantly hanker for a vanished past, so that nostalgia has become a national characteristic?
In March 1896 a small volume of...
Why is it that for many people ''England'' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the ''England'' for which people fought in two world wars? What is about the English that makes them constantly hanker for a vanished past, so that nostalgia has become a national characteristic?
In March 1896 a small volume of...
