Patriots

Patriots

by RichardWeight (Author)

Synopsis

'Here are the themes of Orwell's The Lion and the Unicorn stretched over the subsequent sixty years and widened to embrace the whole United Kingdom. Brimming with zest and feel this is politico-cultural history at its best.' Peter HennessyA brilliant cultural, political and social history of British national identity from our 'finest hour' in the dark days of 1940 to the Millennium celebrations of Blair's Britain.In it, Richard Weight examines how the country's elite forged a popular modern Britishness in order to maintain morale during the War and looks at what has happened to this curious construct in the years that followed. From sixties boom to eighties bust, from the belief in a truly united Britain to the apparent fragmentation of the country with the birth of a Scots and a Welsh assembly, Weight looks at what it means to be British at a time when many commentators question whether such a thing as British actually exists.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 1024
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 10 May 2002

ISBN 10: 0333734629
ISBN 13: 9780333734629

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'Here are the themes of Orwell's The Lion and the Unicorn stretched over the subsequent sixty years and widened to embrace the whole United Kingdom. Brimming with zest and feel this is politico-cultural history at its best.' Peter Hennessy
Author Bio
Richard Weight read history at Trinity College, Cambridge and completed his Ph.D. at University College, London, where he was examined by Peter Hennessy and David Cannadine. He has been a Scouloudi Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kent. He published a number of articles and is the editor of The Right to Belong: Citizenship and National Identity in Britain 1930-1960