... host city North Korea Wilson Harold modernism Ball Alan Rous Stanley Beckenbauer Franz Howell Denis Myth of 1966 Sociality Nationalism Ideology Englishness England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always...

...This chapter examines the legend of disintegration, one of the most politically influential expressions of the notion of political Englishness, which charts England's loss of supposed self-possession. It traces the influence of this legend in the debate about English identity and explains...

...This chapter considers the imaginative effect of the post-war experience and identifies the anxieties of Englishness, commenting on historian George Kitson Clark's argument that the English had been English before they were British and that English identity could be found behind or beyond...

...This chapter analyses the conservative English ‘particular’, an idea which aims to reconcile with civic, liberal and multi-ethnic values, explaining that the first characteristic of conservative patriotism is that the populist version of Englishness has become more prominent that the patrician...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the politics, legends and anxieties of Englishness. It comments on the public display of English flags in the 2002 World Cup and suggests that the ubiquity of the Cross of St. George has diluted any partisan political intent. The chapter...

...This Chapter considers what Hazell once called the ‘gaping hole’ in the devolution settlement, England. It could be said that the English question has become the damnable question in British politics. Current expressions of Englishness have a particular context: the new complexity of United Kingdom...

... generation of realists such as Arnold Bennett. From his early days, Priestley pitched his literary tent on English soil, writing about the Englishness of English literature, and its relation to national character. Like Orwell later on, he suspected the high intelligentsia of loving every country but his own...

... of the emergence of a stronger and more visible sense of Englishness: the so-called ‘English Question’. As a way of exposing this dilemma, party policy on devolution and immigration since 1997 is mapped out. In the light of these two areas, the chapter considers the Conservatives’ reluctant drift towards becoming...

...Ed Miliband’s One Nation narrative was used to address issues related to the politics of belonging-such as the growing popular opposition to immigration, the rise in salience of an English national identity as well as the ascendancy of UKIP as a party that could destabilise the party system-which...

... and how the 1801 Act of Union impacted on British perceptions of nationality. Particular emphasis is paid to how the term ‘Englishness’ becomes synonymous with British culture which leads to certain aspects of Scottish, Welsh, and Irish society being left out of the development of a ‘national identity...

... references in historical texts of the interwar period present a paradoxical picture for readers. ‘Englishness’ is also explored in relation to the ‘English’ identity, with the chapter finally discussing how the majority of historical practices within this period operated from ‘within’ a racialised...

... and reading books for the young, and provides a case study of how slavery was taught. The chapter begins, however, with analysis of how the teaching of English history was used to teach national development: children were intended to draw moral lessons from the comparisons of modern England and the England...

... become clear that in contemporary critical debate picturesque Englishness is very often seen as synonymous with high quality photography. I will draw upon examples from the late 1890s to the late 1920s, and from fiction and non-fiction films alike. Comin’ Thro’ the Rye Hepworth Cecil National Trust...

... accurately, fetish. In this chapter I focus on one genre in which English landscapes are typically rendered through fantasy, intertextuality and pastiche, namely children’s cinema. With reference to a number of UK/US co-productions, such as the Harry Potter and Nanny McPhee...

...This book is a response to a demand for a history which is no less social than political, investigating what it meant to be a citizen of England living through the 1570s and 1580s. It examines the growing conviction of ‘Englishness’ in the sixteenth century, through the rapidly developing English...

... of association—the national benevolent society and the Orange Order—can help us answer important questions about the Church’s changing relationship with ethnic and loyalist identities in the colonial world. For instance, the Canadian Church’s involvement with the English St. George’s Societies sheds light on how...

...England presents the greatest challenge to advocates of devolution in the UK. There is little evidence of support for a separate English Parliament or for regional government in the English regions but devolution to Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland has implications for England...

...English radicalism has been a deep-rooted but minority tradition in the political culture since at least the seventeenth century. The central aim of this book is to examine, in historical and political context, a range of key events and individuals that exemplify English radicalism in the twentieth...

...This chapter discusses The English Patient, which presents Ondaatje's implied critique of modern cultural and social conditions. This novel studies features of the mind of Europe during a period of political darkness, and is situated between two worlds and two visions...

...Chapter 1 introduces the main themes of book, the scholarly contexts within which the research is situated, and the methods by which the research for the book was conducted. It begins by giving a brief overview of existing approaches to the study of the English folk arts (e.g. socio-historical...