This text presents a re-interpretation of English history and culture in the era of King George III. The author argues that England was probably the first moder
Englishness is an idea, a consciousness and a proto-nationalism. There is no English state within the United Kingdom, no English passport, Parliament or currenc
One of the biggest political stories of the past few decades in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has been the growing divide between the working class and the m
The Tudor era has long been associated with the rise of nationalism in England, yet nationalist writing in this period often involved the denigration and outrig
It is usual to see the United Kingdom as an island of continuity in an otherwise convulsed and unstable Europe; its political history a smooth sequence of admin