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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... ethnicity and the sense of belonging to England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. It also looks at some of the processes by which adherence to Britishness has been encouraged or discouraged by politics, leisure and other forms of culture ...
... ethnicity' and Britishness. It seeks to address the experience of both immigrants and their descendants and the 'host community' in coming to terms with the diverse nature of the population of the United Kingdom. As far as I know ...
... ethnicity and class Representation of the monarch as head of the national family helped to overcome internal social and geographical divisions. The United Kingdom consists of four nations united by the monarchy. There were concerns that ...
... ethnic diversity within a multinational state'.32 Within this modern invention, it was Welshness that was emphasised. Wales was portrayed as Welsh-speaking, the ceremony took place in the castle at Caernarfon, and dragons, leeks and ...
... ethnic divisions. This mostly meant that these issues did not emerge in party politics. The rise in the popularity of the monarchy in the nineteenth century was enabled by the monarch's substantial withdrawal from party politics, but it ...
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 |