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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... Britishness in the modern period. There are some honourable exceptions. Linda Colley's Britons: Forging the Nation was groundbreaking, locating the emergence of Britishness ... sense of British national identity. The three-volume collection ...
... Britishness as a much weaker force than Weight does. There existed a British state, he argues, but not in any real sense a British collective identity.37 There was Unionism, but this was political rather than cultural, and it was ...
... British solutions to all-British problems of economic weakness. In addition in this period, two World Wars contributed powerfully to the sense that the British had common purpose. Out of the second of these wars emerged a new form of ...
... Britishness to adapt to changing circumstances. But this should be seen not as the product of some unionist or English conspiracy but rather as a reflection of the adaptive sense of Britishness of much of the United Kingdom population ...
... Britishness that not only welcomed diversity but was constituted of that diversity than I would the emergence of a ... sense of Britishness, while also giving due weight to the ways in which Britishness has been mediated by other ...
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 |