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THE ‘OLD’ BRITISH HISTORIES?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2007

JANE H. OHLMEYER
Affiliation:
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

Extract

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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

A version of this article was given to the séminaire du PRI Etudes Britanniques, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes Social Sciences, Paris, in May 2005 and to the British and Irish History seminar at the University of Berkeley in September 2005. I am grateful to the participants of these seminars for their comments, particularly Laura Downs, Clarisse Berthezène, and Jean-Frédéric Schaub (in Paris) and Tom Brady (in Berkeley). I am also indebted to Micheál Ó Siochrú for his insightful comments.