This new book brings Britain’s folk history out of the shadows

Though English folk culture and customs have long fascinated Zakia Sewell, her book Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain is being published at an eerily prescient time. When a rash of St George’s flags spread across the country in 2025 as a confused and confusing symbol of national pride, it was clear what the flag-defenders’ vision of Britain was: white, anti-immigrant, fuelled by far-right racisthellip;

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