Blighty

07Who are the British? Was the Act of Union as rude as it sounds? Magna Carta, or did she go of her own accord? In Blighty: The Quest for Britishness, Britain, Britons, Britishness and The British, Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur take a physical, historical and metaphorical journey around Britain, stripping bare key ideas of British identity. Over the course of a year the authors watch Morris Men doing hankie-dancing at dawn; chat with Prince William; get attacked by monkeys in Gibraltar and watch East Anglia fall into the sea. Blighty also includes a series of valuable historical lists, such as Britain's Favourite Animals, Britain's Most Dissolute Monarchs, Britain's Top 10 Britons Who Aren't Actually British and Britain's Top Racists.