http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/ourkingdom/edward_first Comments for "Ozymandias on the Solway: England at the edge, David Hayes " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/ourkingdom/edward_first <p> <em>7 July 2007 is a melancholy date in modern British history, the second anniversary of the London bombs which took the lives of fifty-two travellers on the city&#39;s transport network (as well as those of the four suicide-bombers responsible). For those with a sense of a longer national (and multinational) history, it also marks another event that is both significant in itself and full of contemporary political resonances: the 700th anniversary of the death in 1307 of the most powerful and ambitious of all England&#39;s kings, Edward I.</em> </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/ourkingdom/edward_first" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/ourkingdom/edward_first">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/ourkingdom/edward_first#comment democracy &amp; power Creative Commons normal David Hayes ourkingdom Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:00:12 +0100 Grace Davies 33940 at http://www.opendemocracy.net