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Bede: The Man Who Invented England by Edoardo Albert Groundswell Speaker 2024 'A pacy legal thrillerWhat is England, and who are the English? The man who first posed and answered these questions lived 1,200 years ago in Northumberland. The Venerable Bede spent almost his whole life in two monasteries looking over the North Sea, far from the centres of civilisation. Yet he became the foremost scholar of the first millennium, writing a history that continues to illuminate the Dark Ages, while also popularising our modern dating scheme. Faced with a