An original, scholarly and extremely readable history of what is often regarded, by the English anyway, as an essential attribute of their national character
Jonathan Duke-Evans received his doctorate in history from Oxford University in 1981 with a thesis on radical political theory and practice in the early 18th century. He made his career in the Civil Service, working in the Home Office, the Cabinet Office, and the Ministry of Defence. He was awarded a Harkness Fellowship in 1989, taking a Master's degree at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. This is his first book.