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In the wake of the emotional afterglow of Anglophilia following my stay in England the year before, my father presented me at Christmas 1960 with the book “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, by the English historian John Robert Seeley about the growth of the British Empire, (published in German as “Die Ausbreitung Englands”).
Ian Murdoch’s reminiscences about English football prompt me to add a Scottish perspective.
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When I was a child television was in its infancy. It occupied an obscure part of the room looking like a piece of furniture and was tentatively opened out of a cupboard for a few hours a day.
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a constitutional monarchy, without a written constitution.
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