Layers...

I have been thinking - and Niki's comment has prompted me to write it down - that the layers of history are very evident in the York built environment. Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman... and that only takes us up to the 12th century. All those centuries of invasion and disruption, of destruction but also of regeneration. I find it disrupts my notions of nationhood. Perhaps we are too precious about our nationality, since we are all hybrids. I guess we just have to settle for a fluid nationality and an identity that is always in the making...