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“... sentimental. There are sometimes ideals that are held most happily when not to be realised. As Linda Colley has bluntly pointed out, while little effective defence was mounted against the Jacobite cause in arms, ‘the vast majority of men and women remained stolidly at home.’ Duffy carefully describes, over some two hundred pages and with a ...”

“... would be ‘A Thousand Years of English Expansion’ were coldly received). ‘Britishness,’ Linda Colley has written, ‘was superimposed over an array of internal differences’ in response to contact (and conflict) with the other – i.e. with Catholic and then republican France. In other words, Britishness can exist when the nations of the UK ...”

“... Elif Batuman, Edna Bonhomme, Hazel V. Carby, Linda Colley, Meehan Crist, Anne Enright, Lorna Finlayson, Lisa Hallgarten and Jayne Kavanagh, Sophie Lewis, Maureen N. McLane, Erin Maglaque, Gazelle Mba, Azadeh Moaveni, Toril Moi, Joanne O’Leary, Niela Orr, Lauren Oyler, Susan Pedersen, Jacqueline Rose, Madeleine Schwartz, Arianne Shahvisi, Sophie Smith, Rebecca Solnit, Alice Spawls, Amia Srinivasan, Chaohua Wang, Marina Warner, Bee Wilson, Emily Witt Elif BatumanWhen​ Roe v ...”

“... friend. It’s 25 years since Tom Nairn first willed the ‘Break-Up of Britain’, and ten since Linda Colley influentially explained that Britons were the product of particular historical conditions – conditions which have now disappeared. We have had the woe-is-England vapourings of Simon Heffer and the rushed observations of Andrew Marr. An ...”

“... begin to push the UK’s two so-called main parties in the direction of localism and federalism? Linda Colley ‘If​ it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ This most sensible of sayings applies for me to the referendum issue. Is the Union broken and in need of fixing? Surely not. It isn’t utopia. Nothing is. True, the Tories are so weak in Scotland ...”

“... notable absences among historians who have written principally on British topics – nothing from Linda Colley or Quentin Skinner, for example – and some of the best-known contemporary exponents of biography have not contributed: there is no Peter Ackroyd, no Hermione Lee, no Victoria Glendinning, though there are three entries by Claire ...”

“... would be bowing the knee to foreign princes. Some of this story will be familiar to readers of Linda Colley’s Britons, or Gerald Newman’s The Rise of English Nationalism, but Rogers adds his own engaging details and grace notes. He gives a lucid account of the Sublime Society of Beefsteaks, founded by actors and playwrights in 1736, which began ...”

“... sufficient to give reality to the fears of Whig ministers and their Hanoverian masters. Readers of Linda Colley’s In Defiance of Oligarchy, which gives a persuasive and sympathetic account of the Tory Party in these years, may wonder why Clark persists in saddling the Tories with so strong a tendency to Jacobitism long after 1715. The old view that it ...”