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Roger Deakin, wild swimmer and author of Waterlogged

Great Lives

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Roger Deacon: A Positive Side to English Nationalism

Roger Deacon was a direct grant boy and went to habadeshos school. His great uncle was a famous anarchist, part of the Wal-Saul anarchists who were jailed for a bomb plot in 1892. There is something about Roger's engagement with the land that makes me feel proud to be English," says Patrick O'Brien.

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