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Norman Davies

The History Of Half-Forgotten Europe

Winter Weekend 2011, Sunday 4 December 2011

How many British people know that Glasgow was founded by the Welsh in a period when neither England nor Scotland existed? Europe’s history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires and republics which have now vanished. Norman Davies peers through the cracks in mainstream history writing and listens to the echoes of lost realms across the centuries.