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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... Numbers and 'the other' in affluent Britain 125 Keeping Britain white: the politics of exclusion 127 Black and Asian identities in the UK 135 7 Outer Britain 141 Holding together or pulling apart? 142 Wales 143 Scotland 149 Ireland and ...
... numbers of students with Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Ukrainian, Polish, African, Asian and Caribbean names are testimony to the intermingled nature of the British Isles. In addition, other identities have been held simultaneously with these ...
... numbers were reduced to around 35,000 children. Each of these events involved council officials and teachers in immense extra and unpaid work in what amounted to nation building. There was also no shortage of offers of voluntary help ...
... number of ways: 'one is a Scotch woman weaver, another a South Wales steel works foreman. Then there is a girl employed at a Birmingham electricity works and young pit worker at Chesterfield.'83 Hence the monarchy also sought to ...
... number two. While more attended the street parties than bought the single (some may well have done both), disrespect for monarchy was evident. Such attacks brought a backlash, and Thatcherism could be seen as representing an English ...
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 |