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Book SynopsisA conversation about what Enghlish national identity actually means.
Table of ContentsKrishan Kumar: Preface
Section one: Englishness in discourse and opinion
1: Susan Condor, sense & sensibility: the conversational etiquette of english national self-identification
2: John Curtice, is the English lion ready to roar?
3: Paul Thomas, all white? Englishness, ‘race’ and ethnic identities
4: Chris Bryant, towards a cosmopolitan england?
Section two: Englishness in politics and institutions
5: Stephen Ingle, conservatives and Englishness: A conversation between party and nation
6: Matthew Beech, the left and Englishness
7: Simon Lee, Gordon Brown and the negation of England
8: Philip Norton, the Englishness of Westminster
9: Colin Copus, Englishness and local government: Reflecting a nation’s past or merely an administrative convenience?
Section three: Englishness in history and imagination
10: Julia Stapleton, faith, people & place: the English union in the writings of arthur mee and G.K. Chesterton
11: Gary Day, the changing face of englishness: history, culture and character
12: Patrick Parrinder, from Hardy to Larkin: Poets and novelists in national conversation
Christine Berberich & Arthur Aughey, Afterword
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