Autorentext

Michael Wood worked in agriculture until accepted for business training by a leading Japanese trading house. Working for major Japanese, Dutch and German firms he was involved in international trade, IT and Consulting from the mid-sixties to his retirement in 2010. He travelled widely and has lived and worked in Nigeria, Ukraine, Central Asia as well as the EU (Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg).He maintained his student interest in Art and History during his business career. Since retirement, he has written and illustrated children's books under his middle name Evelyn Wood.As Michael E J Wood he writes for the Bruges Group and has been published by a number of newspapers including the Huff Post on disability issues. He claims to have invented the label 'Invisible Disability' to describe those who need disabled facilities, but whose disabilities are not obvious.Writing a history of England that is accessible and above all provides key information so that a reader can undertake further focused research, has been a long-held ambition. He is a committed democrat and believes in national as well as individual sovereignty.

Klappentext

Anglo-Saxon common sense and pragmatism is responsible for law, liberty, and government of the people.

Those who dismiss pre-1066 England as the 'Dark Ages' are terribly wrong. We owe our forebears a debt that is impossible to measure. In Germania (A.D. 98) Tacitus wrote about a people who had laws, morals, and an organised society based on folk right, customary common law, exercised at folk moots. These were precursors to our representative parliamentary democracy.

Recently, politicians have sought to overthrow the will of the people. To defend our inheritance requires an understanding of history.

This book is a detailed examination of events from Anglo-Saxon times to now. It paints a picture of a people struggling to recover their rights whilst at the same time leading the world in science, commerce, engineering, culture, and law.

Our island story demonstrates that the people will not be thwarted. A proper understanding of our national journey will help us to restore our folk right.