Name: Along the Borders. In search of what divides and unites us
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Author: Richard Collett
ISBN: 9781529935882

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Along the Borders. In search of what divides and unites us

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Doubleday

Author

Richard Collett

Year

2026

Pages

336

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.2x13.8x2.5 cm

ISBN13

9781529935882

Along the Borders. In search of what divides and unites us

Richard Collett (Author) · Doubleday · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Along the Borders. In search of what divides and unites us"

Searching for a sense of national and personal identity in an increasingly fragmented United Kingdom, Borderlands merges British history with contemporary politics and culture. Collett’s journey takes him to the banks of the River Tamar - a natural boundary dividing Anglo-Saxon Devon from Celtic Cornwall for a thousand years, to the English-Welsh borders, where Offa’s Dyke has separated the two countries since the 8th century. He then travels north to the Anglo-Scottish borderlands, Orkney and Shetland, and across the Irish Sea to Northern Ireland. Richard Collett speaks to a cast of characters including Cornish nationalists, Welsh speakers teaching Welsh in England, and migrant charity workers helping refugees. For the first time in centuries, Brexit and the pandemic made hard borders an unprecedented reality. Calls for Scottish, Welsh, and even Cornish independence, are a constant backdrop to Collett’s journey. In Northern Ireland, there are fears of a hard border reigniting ‘The Troubles’, while in southern England, issues of immigration have turned the Kent coast into a maritime frontier and political battleground. Collett explores the rise of regional identities in the midst of an ever-loosening sense of national unity, but ultimately, this isn’t a book about differences and divisions. Borderlands is a travel book that tries to find what unites Britain.