Phil Hubbard, "Borderland: Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England" (Manchester UP, 2022)
New Books in Western European Studies
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The Kent Coast Is a Story of National Heroes
The kent coast is replete with memorials and public art. The high lights the important role that kent has played in a struggle for national identity. i think you've got an absolutely remarkable repository of public eart along the kent coast, which celebrates kind of national heroes. There's one piece of art where an artist called richard wentworth has gone around the town and found examples of what he calls a non native plants. So there's a budlie, the poplar oak, the turkey oak,. Different trees that he finds around the town, which are described as invadersand he puts a plate to each of them telling us a little bit about their history. And when
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