Since medieval times Britain's relationship with the various countries of Europe has swung between unsteady alliance and open warfare. We hold many treaties: some pacts lasted years while others, like Henry VIII's ‘perpetual peace’ with France, lasted only a matter of months. The current European Union began as an attempt to prevent another great European war.
Now we also have a permanent physical link, to match the political one. The first attempt at a Channel Tunnel was made during the Napoleonic Wars, but William Tolliday drew up a more workable scheme in 1895. Almost a century later, a handshake through a hole deep under the English Channel marked the realisation of Tolliday's dream. ince medieval times Britain's relationship with the
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