Dazed and Confused
Paul Laity: Are the English human?, 28 November 2002
Patriots: National Identity in Britain 1940-2000
by Richard Weight.
Macmillan, 866 pp., £25, May 2002,0 333 73462 9 Show More
by Richard Weight.
Macmillan, 866 pp., £25, May 2002,
Pariah: Misfortunes of the British Kingdom
by Tom Nairn.
Verso, 176 pp., £13, September 2002,1 85984 657 2 Show More
by Tom Nairn.
Verso, 176 pp., £13, September 2002,
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
by Peter Ackroyd.
Chatto, 518 pp., £25, October 2002,1 85619 716 6 Show More
by Peter Ackroyd.
Chatto, 518 pp., £25, October 2002,
“... as ‘the practical expression’ of ‘the spirit of Dunkirk and the Blitz’. (Weight misses Michael Foot’s 1949 pamphlet on domestic reform entitled Who Are the Patriots Now?) A different kind of identity came to fruition during the Attlee Administration: new institutions were called ‘National’ or ‘British’ instead of ‘Royal’ – the ... ”
