@holland_tom >defended by English writers, incl John Dee who accused Polydore of burning cartload of 'proofs' of Geoffrey's vers of history!
@holland_tom > If you only want ppl who have a pro-English outlook & write about the English, then he doesn't fit...
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@holland_tom ...but he is clearly a great, vastly influential historian working in England whose work was defended as true English history >Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@holland_tom > and used by English kings and later historians! And you did cite Gibbon, which suggested a definition not solely based on > -
@holland_tom > cultural issues so much as great and influential historians from England! ;)
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