"This, the most celebrated of islands, formerly called Albion, later Britain, and now England."
— England

January 1, 1970

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Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, quoted in Henry, Archdeacon of Huntingdon: Historia Anglorum (The History of the English People), ed. Diana Greenway (1996), p. 13