@caitlinrgreen On that basis, you might as well define Marx as English
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@caitlinrgreen Only because the period in which he is writing is crucial to the development of English/Welsh/British identity. -
@caitlinrgreen It's precisely the period when English/Welsh identity IS becoming more restrictive - & Geoffrey's important in that process. -
@holland_tom Yes and no---*if* Harke et al right, then v much more restrictive in pre-Viking era. But again, it's a definition thing-- > -
@holland_tom > If you only want ppl who have a pro-English outlook & write about the English, then he doesn't fit... -
@holland_tom ...but he is clearly a great, vastly influential historian working in England whose work was defended as true English history >
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