Britishness since 1870What does it mean to be British? It is now recognized that being British is not innate, static or permanent, but that national identities within Britain are constantly constructed and reconstructed. Britishness since 1870 examines this definition and redefinition of the British national identity since the 1870s. Paul Ward argues that British national identity is a resilient force, and looks at how Britishness has adapted to changing circumstances. Taking a thematic approach, Britishness since 1870 examines the forces that have contributed to a sense of Britishness, and considers how Britishness has been mediated by other identities such as class, gender, region, ethnicity and the sense of belonging to England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. |
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... Britons, that is people living in the United Kingdom, have adopted cultural and political identities associated with the existence of this multi-national polity. Many commentators believe that states that contain more than one nation ...
... Briton in 1800', they have argued, 'possessed a composite identity."8 So too did Britons in 1870 and in 2003. Arthur Aughey also stresses that people frequently have a duality of national identities. He quotes Wassily Kandinsky, the ...
... Britons: Forging the Nation was groundbreaking, locating the emergence of Britishness between 1707 and 1837, as a combination of the deeds of elites and common people. In particular, she emphasises the role played by women in the ...
... Britons from urban Liverpool, Brummies are Britons from urban Birmingham, Geordies are Britons from urban Newcastle. Yorkshire is associated as much with Bradford and Huddersfield as it is with the Dales and the North York Moors ...
... Britons since the I 980s rather than on any innate tolerance associated with being British. The final chapter examines the experiences of Ireland, Scotland and Wales within the United Kingdom. Its fundamental argument is that people in ...
Contents
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Countervailing currents | 96 |
The First World War | 98 |
Between the wars | 100 |
British Fascism and Communism | 101 |
Patriotism and politics in the peoples war | 105 |
The politics of European identity | 108 |
A new way of being British ethnicity and Britishness | 113 |
Continuities and varieties before 1945 | 116 |
Women in Ireland Scotland and Wales | 42 |
The impact of the Great War | 44 |
Gender and Britishness in the Second World War | 47 |
Gender race and home in postwar Britain | 50 |
Rural urban and regional Britishness | 54 |
Finding the core of the nation | 55 |
Regional identities | 66 |
Spare time | 73 |
Sport nation and Empire | 74 |
Sport and nation in Scotland Wales and Ireland | 76 |
Regional and local identities in British sport | 80 |
Race sport and identity | 82 |
Discordant voices | 84 |
Going on holiday | 85 |
Resisting the Americanisation of culture | 89 |
Politicians parties and national identity | 93 |
The Second World War and the national community | 123 |
Numbers and the other in affluent Britain | 125 |
the politics of exclusion | 127 |
Black and Asian identities in the UK | 135 |
Outer Britain | 141 |
Holding together or pulling apart? | 142 |
Wales | 143 |
Scotland | 149 |
Ireland and Northern Ireland | 157 |
The end of Britain? | 168 |
Conclusion | 170 |
Notes | 174 |
Bibliography | 211 |
Index | 229 |