In trying to understand Brexit, we naturally look to history. Helpfully, in an episode of The Rest is History podcast, the historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook posit a series of historic parallels: The drowning of Doggerland Doggerland was an area, now submerged beneath the North Sea, that connected Britain to continental Europe. It was flooded by rising sea levels around 6,500 BC, marking the first break between Britain and the continent. The departure of Rome As the Roman Empire came under increasing pressure from Barbarians in the early 5th century AD, the Roman army in Britain was withdrawn and…

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