Summary
IT used to be said that an Englishman's home was his castle and that went for the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish too.
On one level the saying meant simply that every Briton, in all but the most exceptional circumstances, had the right to turn unwelcome visitors from his door.See the full content of this document
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Can We Still Call Our Homes Our Castles? ; Comment
But its deeper meaning was that there was a clear dividing line between matters that concerned the state and those that were the private citizen's business alone.
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