All around the world, tourist boards advertise trips to Britain with images of the great castles and cathedrals that occupy the commanding heights of our landscape. They seem timeless and typically English. It is rarely mentioned that they are predominately French – proud monuments to the invasion that signals the end of England’s ‘dark age’.

All around the world, tourist boards advertise trips to Britain with images of the great castles and cathedrals that occupy the commanding heights of our landscape. They seem timeless and typically English. It is rarely mentioned that they are predominately French – proud monuments to the invasion that signals the end of England’s ‘dark age’.

– Robert Winder –

Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain

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