Monday, 29 April 2024

Graham Robb, The Debatable Land:: The Lost World between Scotland and England

 I read this before 'Chess', but have got myself a bit out of order. I've read some of Graham Robb's books on France and enjoyed them, and he's a keen cyclist too which is another plus. I have some familiarity with the borders and moss-troopers through the books of George MacDonald Fraser, but I wasn't aware there is a specific part of the border just north east of Carlisle that was historically not quite England and not quite Scotland. Always fun to read about reivers and peel towers and blasted, wind-swept moors

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