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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... Wales and Ireland - were unreal , because they were often conservative and were frequently nationalist . The book looks at the actions and reactions of ' real ' people without making assumptions about the way in which they should act ...
... Wales and Ireland , reject the idea of Britishness as anything other than an imposition of the English , whose roots in the ' periphery ' were shallow.29 In many ways , historians are better served by books that consider the formation ...
... The Empire remained a central part of Britishness . But the economy had weakened . This enabled the emergence of nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales , but most people in those countries continued to believe they were Introduction 7.
... Wales and Scotland , and the re - emergence of the impact of Irish nationalism in Britain ( it had never gone away in Northern Ireland ) . This was the moment when the end of Britain began to be widely predicted . But the prophecy of ...
... Wales within the United Kingdom . Its fundamental argument is that people in these nations have been central to the construction of Britishness in the last 130 years . It does not underestimate the extent to which Britishness has been ...
Contents
Monarchy and Empire | 14 |
Ceremony celebration and the making of the nation as family | 18 |
nation ethnicity and class | 22 |
Politics monarchy and imperialism | 28 |
The monarchy and the end of Empire | 31 |
Gender and national identity | 37 |
Masculinity Britishness and Empire in the late nineteenth century | 38 |
Women and the nation 18701918 | 39 |
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 |
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