Journal ArticleDOI
Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837.
Eliga H. Gould,Linda Colley +1 more
TLDR
In this paper, Colley explains how a new British nation was invented in the wake of the 1707 Act of Union, and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade and imperial expansion.Abstract:
How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? In this prize-winning book, Linda Colley explains how a new British nation was invented in the wake of the 1707 Act of Union, and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade and imperial expansion. Here too are numerous individual Britons - heroes and politicians like Nelson and Pitt; bourgeois patriots like Thomas Coram and John Wilkes; artists, writers and musicians who helped to forge our image of Britishness; as well as many ordinary men and women whose stories have never previously been told. Powerful and timely, this lavishly illustrated book is a major contribution to our understanding of Britain's past and to the growing debate about the shape and survival of Britain and its institutions in the future. \"The most dazzling and comprehensive study of a national identity yet to appear in any language.\" Tom Nairn, Scotsman \"A very fine book ...challenging, fascinating, enormously well-informed.\" John Barrell, London Review of Books \"Wise and bracing history ...which provides an historical context for debate about British citizenship barely begun.\" Michael Ratcliffe, Observer \"Controversial, entertaining and alarmingly topical ...a delight to read.\"Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph \"Uniting sharp analysis, pungent prose and choice examples, Colley probes beneath the skin and lays bare the anatomy of nationhood.\" Roy Porter, New Statesman & Societyread more
Citations
More filters
Book
English Identity and Political Culture in the Fourteenth Century
TL;DR: Ruddick et al. as discussed by the authors explored the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England and set it in its political and constitutional context for the first time, finding that despite the problematic relationship between nationality and subjecthood in the king of England's domains, a sense of English identity was deeply embedded in the mindset of a significant section of political society.
Dissertation
The Road to 1944 - the history of the development of education in south and south west Wales in the lead up to the wartime Education Act, and its implementation in the years that followed
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the period between the two Education Acts of 1918 and 1944 and as such, build on and contribute to the history of education in Wales and identify and document the way in which two major sources of influences: politics and religion shaped the society which predisposed education provision in south and south west Wales to be modified in specific ways.
Dissertation
The Colonial Medical Officer and colonial identity: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania before World War Two.
TL;DR: In this article, the composition and experiences of a large prosopographical database of the Colonial Medical Service (CMS) cadre are profiled and analysed on the basis of which they served in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania from the beginning of British colonial rule to the start of World War Two.
Journal ArticleDOI
Four Histories, One Nation? History teaching, nationhood and a British identity
TL;DR: This article explored the relationship between history teaching and the construction of national identity, and provided a comprohensive analysis of important developments within the history curricula oin England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, and also explained why history has become politicised in Britain over the past few decades.
Journal ArticleDOI
History and Historiography of the English East India Company: Past, Present, and Future!
TL;DR: The authors explores recent developments in the historiography of the English East India Company and proposes that there has been an efflorescence of late in scholarship on the Company that is directly tied both to the resurgence of imperial studies in British history as well as to contemporary concerns such as globalization, border-crossings, and transnationalism.