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Published: 30 August 2010
... “Sex and Modern Literature” Crackanthorpe Frankel Nicholas hysteria Oscar Wilde’s Decorated Books Frankel Bland Lucy Legitimation League Weeks Jeffrey Wilson and MacMillan empire British representation Havelock Ellis female sexuality Oscar Wilde Victoria Cross British national identity...
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Published: 06 June 2017
... dictionary national vernacular British national identity language practices eighteenth-century texts eighteenth-century british readers were anxious to learn and master the English that was being standardized throughout the century—so much so that they made grammar books bestsellers and, when...
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Published: 26 October 2010
...British national identity or ‘Britishness’ has been defined as possessing fluent English skills, loyalty to Britain, integration with the wider community, belief in democracy, acceptance of equal treatment for all and respect for the country and shared heritage. For immigrants, it takes generations...
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Published: 22 October 2010
... inception in the early 1920s to the Second World War. The reach and potential influence of the BBC suggests that the empire remained important to British national identity in the 1950s, even after the first wave of decolonization. The extent and range of programmes that had empire as their subject matter...
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Published: 22 December 2005
... is that the imperial connection has in large part reinforced the contradictions of British national identity. The chapter then examines the issues of identity. It also highlights the need not to assume that issues of citizenship and nationality operate according to the same framework in different parts of the kingdom...
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Published: 02 January 2010
...This article examines the enduring significance of Britain's imperial past for understanding various aspects of contemporary British politics. It specifically explores its effects on British national identity and its role in shaping perspectives on globalization and foreign policy, as those...
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Published: 01 May 2018
... neoclassical architecture Nazism Sooke Alastair Treasures of Ancient Greece BBC 2015 Divine Women BBC 2012 Hughes Bettany Wilson David Taylor Don Greek inheritance Greek legacy ancient Greece television documentary British national identity Western ideologies BBC television Channel 4 television...
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Published: 10 January 2013
...This chapter shows that as a consequence of Olivia Manning's eyewitness recognition of Britain's pervasive sway in Egypt, she began to question the stories of imperial superiority that were crucial in the construction of British national identity and regularly articulated in the world...
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Published: 04 March 2021
... as source of English British pride Queen the World Wars English national identity British national identity survey measures regional variation national pride It was not meant to be like this. Unlike the overly emotional Celts or those of their ilk, the English were thought to be indifferent about...
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Published: 04 March 2021
... relationship’ The Northern Ireland London Powell Enoch Commonwealth India Philippines Singapore Attlee Clement Cameron David Conquest Robert English votes for English laws EVEL House of Commons Euroscepticism English national identity British national identity imperial legacy Anglosphere...
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Published: 04 March 2021
... Democrats Gaelic European Union membership Brexit referendum 2016 Mitchell James London London Assembly Regional Assemblies Government England Scottish Election Study Scottish Parliament Welsh Election Study Welsh Life and Times Survey English national identity British national identity Scottish...
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Published online: 18 December 2014
Published in print: 16 October 2014
... they provide on the Anglo-Welsh past. The book’s interdisciplinary focus will appeal to scholars studying the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, early modern history and culture more generally, and British national identity from the early Tudor period to the dawn of the English Civil War....
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Published online: 03 October 2011
Published in print: 17 November 1994
... and a crucial and contested symbol of British national identity. It shows in particular how the deification of Shakespeare co-existed with and even demanded the drastic and sometimes bizarre rewriting of his plays for which the period is notorious. The book provides, through engaging and informative analysis...
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Published: 06 September 2018
... ARCIC Vatican II Beaumont Timothy Billington Ray Woolwich New Christian Anti Racism Hunger problem of world Anglo Catholicism Uppsala Conference 1968 Wren Lewis John Beeson Trevor Christian Century Cold War ecumenism eschatology global unity British exceptionalism British national...
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Published: 02 January 2010
...This article first defines some crucial terms. It then describes rival Irish national identities within the modern UK, organized rival nationalisms in Northern Ireland, and some related complexities of British national identity. It would be wrong to see Irish national identity and British unionist...
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Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 22 October 2010
...Examining the ways in which the BBC constructed and disseminated British national identity during the second quarter of the twentieth century, this book focuses in a comprehensive way on how the BBC, through its radio programmes, tried to represent what it meant to be British. It offers a revision...
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Published: 01 August 2016
... Studios Drum The Four Feathers The Korda Zoltan British Rural Landscape Film publicity Advertising Pictorialism Press Books Marketing Publicity Realism British national identity Britishness A romanticised concept of pastoral life was widely established in British culture by the start...
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Published: 01 August 2016
... Millions Like Us Portman Eric Rhodes Marjorie Sim Sheila Bells Go Down The Canterbury Tale A Dearden Basil Pressburger Emeric Robson Flora Sutherland Graham Askey Arthur Formby George British Rural Landscape World War Two British national identity A Canterbury Tale Went the Day Well? When...
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Published online: 21 May 2020
Published in print: 14 October 2019
... the difficulties and Islamophobia that Muslims have experienced in Britain since the 1970s are largely caused by an acute crisis in British national identity. In truth, Muslims have become increasingly key participants in mainstream British society — in culture, sport, politics, and the economy....
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Published: 01 August 2016
... Meets Greek British Rural Landscape Silent cinema Cecil Hepworth Scenics Picturesque British national identity Englishness Since the beginnings of cinema in the 1890s, landscape has played a crucial role in the development of British national cinema. A sense of national specificity in British...