Beef And Liberty: Roast Beef, John Bull and the English Nation by Ben Rogers

Beef And Liberty: Roast Beef, John Bull and the English Nation

Ben Rogers

207 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

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In Shakespeare's Henry V the French lords quail at the thought of British soldiers, who eat like wolves and fight like devils after 'great meals of beef'. Two centuries later, eighteenth- century England rings to boisterous renderings of 'The Roas...

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