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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2019

      Copyright © David Reynolds 2019

      Front cover photograph © Martin Parr/Magnum Photos

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      Source ISBN: 9780008282318

      Ebook Edition © October 2019 ISBN: 9780008282332

      Version: 2019-09-13

       Epigraph

       We have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less reasonable to others than to us.

      Winston Churchill, 10 January 1914

       Trade cannot flourish without security.

      Lord Palmerston, 22 April 1860

       Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time, like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

      Margaret Thatcher, 1 May 1979

       Vote Leave. Take Back Control.

      Brexit campaign slogan, 2016

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Epigraph

       List of illustrations

      Introduction: Brexit Means …?

      1. Decline

      2. Europe

       3. Britain

       4. Empire

       5. Taking Control of Our Past

       Notes

       Index

       Acknowledgments

       About the Author

       Also by David Reynolds

       About the Publisher

       List of illustrations

       1. ‘Brexit means …’ © Christian Adams (Tim Benson, The Political Cartoon Gallery)

       2. ‘Bull and his burdens’, John Tenniel © Punch, 8 February 1879, Vol 76

       3. ‘We can fly the Union Jack instead of the white flags …’ © Cummings, Daily Express/Express Syndication, 16 June 1982

       4. ‘Er, could I be the hind legs, please?’ © Vicky/Victor Weisz, Evening Standard, 6 December 1962

       5. ‘The Double Deliverance’ (1621). © The Trustees of the British Museum.

       6. ‘Very Well, Alone’. © David Low, Evening Standard, 18 June 1940.

       7. ‘Come on in! Vite! The water’s wunderbar.’ © Cummings, Daily Express, 28 June 1989

       8. ‘The United Kingdom: Liberate Scotland now …’ © Lindsay Foyle, 15 January 2012

       9. Woodcut from James Cranford, ‘The Teares of Ireland’ (1642). © British Library Board/Bridgeman Images

       10. ‘Massacre at Drogheda’ from Mary Frances Cusack, An Illustrated History of Ireland (1868)

       11. Mr Punch reviews the fleet at Spithead, Punch, June 1897. © Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

       12. ‘Windrush Betrayal’. © Patrick Blower/Telegraph Media Group Ltd, Daily Telegraph, 18 April 2018

       13. ‘The Aliens Act at Work’ (1906). © Jewish History Museum, London

       14. ‘We need migrants …’ © Matt Pritchett/Telegraph Media Group Ltd, Daily Telegraph, 30 June 2017

      15. ‘It’ll whisk you back to the sepia-tinted 1950s’. © Kipper Williams, In or Out of Europe (2016).

      16. ‘Remainers Ahead’, © Grizelda, New Statesman, 13 April 2018

       17. ‘Free at Last’ © Patrick Chappatte, New York Times, 23 June 2016.

       Introduction

       Brexit Means …?

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