In another place we have been critical of Mr Baldwin during the years we all know as leading to the ‘Gathering Storm’ period, but when you have read his introduction you will be in no doubt that he was indeed a passionate and patriotic Englishman.

Introduction

I have been asked to write an introduction to a series of volumes to be published under the general title of” The English Heritage.” I think the editors and publishers are to be warmly congratulated on their enterprise, and I find a peculiar pleasure in contributing a few words of welcome in a preface in which I may use the word English [This was in 1929 and how difficult it has been since then and particularly over the last seven years.] without the fear of interruption, and speak of England without hearing the acidulated suggestion that I should say Britain.

These books  [series of volumes published under the general title of” The English Heritage.”] are more needed because much of what they treat is changing under our eyes, [1929] and it may be of interest to our children to look to the rock whence they are hewed; and to others it may be a revealing of the Englishman and his heritage, for he is not apt to speak before strangers either of his land or of himself, and when he does the less Englishman he.

 The choice of subject appears to me to be singularly happy.  Think, for a moment, of the centuries packed into a little volume on “The Country Spirit.” That spirit, tranquil, unperceived, and apparently forgotten in our cities, leaped in a moment into the flame, which swept across the battlefields of the world.  Quickened, revivified, it is in our bones, as it has been since our counties were carved out of the dissipating fragments of the Heptarchy.

[As our pilgrims visited their fallen in Normandy this last June 6-2004]

Last Whitsuntide I was a pilgrim among our graveyards in Flanders and on the Somme.  In one of the most beautiful, where all are beautiful, I met three other pilgrims, large silent men.  Two carried baskets, and one rapidly scanning each headstone and occasionally stooped to the ground.  I approached them, and we spoke together.  They had brought out from home a quantity of small white-enamelled tablets with spikes affixed, the device thereon a red rose and the legend,

“They win or die who wear the Red Rose of Lancaster,” and the stooping man had been placing one at the headstone of every grave, which held a Lancastrian soldier. So might their ancestors have murmured the same words over the bloody fields of Barnet and of Tewkesbury?

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‘DO YOU WISH TO BE GOVERNED BY YOUR OWN PEOPLE, LAW AND CUSTOM OR BY THE CORRUPT ,EXPENSIVE UNACCOUNTABLE AND ALIEN BUSYBODY BRUSSELS’

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