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Thank you Clare, enjoy! :)

Enjoy, & feel free to DM me if you have any questions!

Thanks!

Based on an article currently in press I believe published through Apardjón, the Aberdeen Journal for Scandinavian Studies.

Used to have a National Geographic map of the Soviet Union & its ethnic groups on my wall as a kid & developed a peeve when the tv or radio (invariably football-related) referred to something USSR/CIS as 'Russian'. I think I saw the analogy between Russia/USSR and England/UK.

Did some google booking, exact expression is used in various editions of the the 19th-century Beeton encyclopaedias. It could appear that the 1992 author is either 'influenced' by one of these or we have a very a curious manifestation of the 'library of Babel'!

Bad copyediting? The 'Baltic' should make the "European" part redundant. If they writing before the Revolution Livonia was the name of a province of the Russian Empire.

There's a lot of flexibility of course, Mercia, Wessex, Northumbria, they all changed in size, they weren't fixed units over long periods of time. But England was built from component units, it's arguably most natural to use them a bit when you want to give people devolution they can buy in to.

People will mostly accept these regions once they are there. The key to is making people feel they belong. The regions with the convoluted bureaucratic names & no history will struggle, there needs to be legitimacy, authority, etc. Hence groups of shires in their high medieval blocks is one idea.

Not fully serious as a real suggestion, but East Anglia & Wessex surely musts, they are ideal units for devolution in terms of size and historic identity.

Own suggestion from a few years ago, trying to aim at entities ("Home Counties" aside) as analogous to Scotland & Wales as pos., three "legal nations" of England from the 11thc & 12thc ("Mercian law", "Danish law", "West Saxon law") plus Cornwall, Northumbria & East Anglia.

Great to see books stores still thriving, though they are perhaps stretching the definition of 'independent'

No problem, hope you are well Darren!

Thanks. It’s an interesting idea Fiona!

Enjoy! 😀

Pleased in particular with 'the chapters by McGuigan, Blanchard, and Weikert [were] particular standouts for this reader'. 🙂