Netflix's The King and Brexit: A Black Brexiteer Speaks
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Date: 2020-02-05

Netflix's 'The King' and Brexit. 
An off-hand account of how England's first 'English' king (Henry V) in 400 years shaped Brexit and how his short reign led to the invention of the Nation State. A synopsis of how the Black Plague and Henry V's Yeomen Bowmen upended the English social class structure. Why the British invented the Nation State and why it remains the only viable guarantor, in this age, of individual liberty.
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Notes, Bibliography and References

England, the first Nation State
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation?fbclid=IwAR17P_no11yB3tLl6WNDrBB6wrFRVwDj6la2682v5E0MYKjXcGhJSVgMuX8
In her book Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, Liah Greenfeld argued that nationalism was invented in England by 1600. According to Greenfeld, England was “the first nation in the world"
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http://www.cercles.com/review/R12/kumar7.htm?fbclid=IwAR0lDlEV7all5jEyvIKhM5yvEhEPy1HWZBdX2yzTge6E2MYh2Rdy8fzMGEU
Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, Harvard University Press, 1992.
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http://www.thenationstate.co.uk/TheNationState.pdf
Page 39:
Whilst other European proto-nation state building atrophied, England and Scotland parliaments grew stronger.
Papal power and the consolidation of post Holy Roman Empire City States made it difficult for main land Europe ti coalesce into modern style Nation States.
Out of Britain mainland’s necessity and evolutionary history, England and Scotland formal union was the first successful attempt at the modern Nation State.
The Peace of Westphalia:
This established the concept of nation state in the late 1600s.
But Henry VII’s victory of the War of the Roses in the 1400s culminating with Henry’s break from Rome had already consolidated England’s sense of nation-state.
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THE VIRTUE OF THE NATION STATE:
‘In a distinguished book, the historian Linda Colley has argued that the idea of Britain was invented to give credibility to the Union, to sustain the Protestant religion of England and Scotland, and to fortify Great Britain against continental power.’

Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. Colley’s thesis was anticipated in Hilaire Belloc, History of England, London, 1915.
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Also: Roger Scruton's essay
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/EnglandAndTheNeedForNations.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0SuE2ZlOYrab9B5p8GyLFB4UUFcnoQZPuORYh9M0301vfMdHVG11uffH8

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Labour mobility in Britain's 1400s
E Lipson, Economic History of England.
Vol 1, London, 1945. p 42

B H Putman, Enforcement of the State of Labourers, New York, 1908, p91.
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Wage Increases
P D A Harvey, A Medieval Oxfordshire Village: Cuxham, Oxford. 1965, App. IV

Prices
J Thorold Rodgers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England. Vol 1, Oxford, 1866.
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Henry V: The Practice of Kingship, G L Harris, ed. 1985

Who's Who in Late Medieval England. Michael Hicks.