Evening Standard - London, November 1st, 1999
THE ISLES: A HISTORY by Norman Davies (Macmillan, 30) WHEN filling in forms at foreign borders or hotel reception desks, I sometimes hesitate over the box marked "Nationality". I know that the correct abbreviation for my country is "UK"; but many foreigners find "GB" easier to recognise, and what it says on the first page of my passport is "Nationality: British citizen". My family is Scottish (with, on my mother's side, some English, Irish and Welsh - plus a Dutchman who came over with William III), but I was born and brought up in England: so am I a member of the English nation, or the Scotti...
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