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© 2023, The Author(s).This article embarks on a tour of Brexit Britain in the company of the eighteenth-century writer Daniel Defoe. The closer text is his A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, published between 1724 and 1726. Defoe wrote his Tour, in considerable part, as a gentleman’s guide to the newly ‘United’ Kingdom of Great Britain. It seems apt to revisit Defoe’s Tour given the stresses which presently test the integrity of this same union three centuries on. Stresses which moreover have been exacerbated by Britain’s tortured attempt to extricate itself from another Union, the European. The article will, in fact, revisit just three of the places to which Defoe invited his readers; Rochester, Westminster and Edinburgh. The reason for these three destinations will become apparent.
Author(s): Ward I
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Liverpool Law Review
Year: 2023
Volume: 44
Pages: 221-238
Print publication date: 01/08/2023
Online publication date: 19/06/2023
Acceptance date: 02/04/2022
Date deposited: 05/07/2023
ISSN (print): 0144-932X
ISSN (electronic): 1572-8625
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10991-023-09331-z
DOI: 10.1007/s10991-023-09331-z
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