Andrew Marr challenges my impression of a bland and lifeless post-war Britain.
Whenever I think about British history, I tend to prefer the era of the Tudors or the Stuarts; times of major religious, moral, and political upheaval in an age long gone in the country’s past. I get more of a thrill thinking that I could be tracing Richard III’s footsteps whenever I visit the Tower of London, or that Henry VIII used to...