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Hennessy on the flags of history

Historian Peter Hennessy, born in 1947, looks back to whether children born into a world recently devastated by World War II were perhaps the luckiest generation in British history.
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In a personal film for the Daily Politics, he examines defining a generation by the "flags it flew under” as he looks ahead to the “strange death of European Britain”.

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