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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... popularity of the monarchy in Scotland. An opinion poll in 1991 suggested that if Scotland became independent only 43 per cent of Scots would wish to retain the Queen as head of state, while 48 per cent favoured an elected president ...
... popularity is based on its willingness to travel into the other country of the working class. Since important centres of the industrial working class were to be found in Wales and Scotland it was often possible to combine such visits ...
... popularity of the monarchy in the nineteenth century was enabled by the monarch's substantial withdrawal from party politics, but it remained clear that the monarchy would always support the social system over which it presided.88 ...
... popular opinion among feminists that women are somehow 'outside' the nation. Indeed, the campaign for the parliamentary vote by women was part of a wider campaign for citizenship, a claim to be allowed full involvement in the affairs of ...
... popular terminology, the nation turned its boys into men in the process of training them to be patriots. But even those males outside the military services were expected to co-operate in shaping the nation. The Boy's Own Paper told its ...
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 |