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Essential reading for all trying to navigate the choppy waters of post-Brexit Britain.
R UPA H UQ MP
Brexit was a long time coming. Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson in the exquisite and timely Rule Britannia get that and know that the responses must be as big, if not bigger, than the tsunami the vote to leave has created. Here is that rich but rare mix of profound analysis and hope for something better.
N EAL L AWSON, CHAIR OF C OMPASS
A much-needed mirror through which Britain and what it means to be British is explored with razor-sharp nuance and detail. The books contents should form the basis of the humanities curriculum at schools equipping our future generations with a more truthful and grounded understanding of what Britain really is.
S HAISTA A ZIZ, JOURNALIST, WRITER AND STAND-UP COMEDIAN
Leaver or Remainer, if you think Brexit might affect you or your children or your childrens children, read this book.
P ETER F LORENCE, DIRECTOR, H AY L ITERARY F ESTIVAL
The single most important book about Brexit. Meticulously researched and clearly written, Rule Britannia exposes the racism, ideology and narrow self-interest behind the Brexit rhetoric.
P ROFESSOR D AVID G ILLBORN , DIRECTOR, C ENTRE FOR R ESEARCH IN R ACE AND E DUCATION, U NIVERSITY OF B IRMINGHAM
Absolutely brilliant. Extremely insightful and thought-provoking.
D IMITRIS B ALLAS , P ROFESSOR OF E CONOMIC G EOGRAPHY, U NIVERSITY OF G RONINGEN
Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinsons Rule Britannia makes for essential reading on the connections between Brexit and Britains colonial history. It is a highly readable book and, despite the gravity of its content, a joy to read in being replete with humour and anecdotal gems. A re-education in itself, the book convincingly argues that changes to education policy, schooling and curricula are essential to challenging and averting the disastrous consequences of Britains imperial nostalgia and ignorance.
N ADINE E L- E NANY , S ENIOR L ECTURER IN L AW, B IRKBECK
To Bronwen, Dannys mum, who taught him what the Suez Crisis meant when he was more excited about the idea of pyramids than power games, and to Sallys children, their partners and her grandchildren, who are all citizens of the world, including Europe.
M any thanks to Ailsa Allen for drawing up all the graphs and maps in this book so carefully and to Claire Hann for helping ensure that the final manuscript was internally consistent and presentable! Thanks to Olivia Beattie at Biteback for taking this project on when there were already so many Brexit books out there. We promised this one would be different, and we hope it is. We are extremely grateful for her editorial advice and especially for her editing the final text so diligently, diplomatically and deftly.
Our profound thanks for help with this book are also due to all those who commented on earlier chapters, including Becky Alexis-Martin, Shaista Aziz, Dimitris Ballas, George Davey Smith, Alison Dorling, David Dorling, Philip von Hausenchild, Stacy Hewitt, Benjamin Hennig, Aniko Horvath, Sebastian Kraemer, Carl Lee, Bill Lodge, Chris Lynch, Deborah Outhwaite, Jan Rigby, Paul Scarrott, Robbie Shilliam, Brian Tomlinson, Dariusz Wojcik and Vicky Yiagopoulou. Rebecca Carter of Janklow & Nesbit valiantly found us a publisher when all were heartily sick of considering any more writing on Brexit. We dont hold any grudges against those publishers who turned the opportunity down, save to say if you are reading this now it probably did better than you thought possible. Thanks also to all our other family and friends who argued from both sides of the Brexit divide, but who are still talking to us.
We are also grateful for all the thoughts of the people who turned up to our public lectures during the writing of this book in Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Changchun, Cheltenham, Coventry, Dublin, Durham, Edinburgh, Eton, Groningen, Guildford, Hay-on-Wye, Hong Kong, Hull, Leamington, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Loughborough, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northampton, Ottawa, Oxford, Portsmouth, Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent, Swansea, Weston-Super-Mare, Weymouth, Winchester, York and several smaller towns and rural villages. Apologies for only making it the once to Scotland while writing this book, but you seemed to know very well what you were doing north of the border without our intervention or thoughts!
Finally, we should thank all those who gave permission for the photographs they took to be included, their song lyrics to be quoted or for their images to be included. The artist Joseph Kelly very kindly allowed us to reuse his illustration as a frontispiece here. It was first included in the 2016 March/April issue of Strike! magazine. Benjamin Hennig allowed us to reproduce his maps shown in Figures 1.3 and 3.3; the Royal Mint gave permission for Figure 2.1 to be included; Trinity Mirror, Mirrorpix, and Alamy Stock Photo for Figure 2.4; the Jewish Museum for 4.3; the British Library for 4.4; Allan Warren for 6.1; Wasi Daniju for 6.2; Ian Burt for 6.3; Andre Burdett for 6.4; Daniel Watson and Emma Foster for 6.5; Zoe Norfolk for 7.1; Steve Bell for 7.2; FE Week magazine for 7.3; Matthew Elliott for 7.4; Daniel Gordon Watts for 8.1; and Alasdair Rae for 8.2 and 8.3. We are very grateful for all their help.
Illustration by Joseph P. Kelly
The authors are very grateful to Joseph for permission to use this image.
Empires, in common with most other historical events, leave behind them after-images There is no one version of the British imperial myth.
B ERNARD P ORTER, E MERITUS P ROFESSOR OF H ISTORY, U NIVERSITY OF N EWCASTLE, UK 2015
B ooks on Brexit, on how and why parts of Britain voted to leave the European Union, fell hot off the press in late 2016, saw a resurgence during 2017, and then appeared a little more slowly throughout 2018 as the publics appetite waned and we all became less and less sure of what was happening and what might happen. In the heat of the moment, in the month or the year of the event, emotions are often still running too high to see clearly. Sometimes you have to wait a little time before you can know what really happened.
Why Brexit? Once you have children, you realise that the answer to Why? is never simple. Whatever your reply, the child can almost always ask Why? to that. And then, of course, there are the questions of who did what to whom, where, when, how, and by how much. Above all, we want to highlight what will be seen as important in retrospect. What was it all about? What did it all mean?
Jo Cox MP was murdered a week before the EU referendum in June 2016, by a man who, when asked for his name, replied, My name is death to traitors and freedom for Britain. Many racist attacks and more killings followed the vote..
Those dedicated to recovering national sovereignty, to taking back money supposedly spent in the EU, and removing immigrants, certainly claimed that the referendum was the voice of the previously silent majority, the largely unheard masses. Did people feel they had not been listened to sufficiently? Or are there many more explanations as yet hardly explored?
Some of the dozens of books that were published in the immediate aftermath of the referendum promised the full story of the political manoeuvring that got the UK to this point, and others promised to make sense of the vote, with a couple of tomes focusing on the supposed evils of immigration and Islam. One or two suggested that Britain would eventually not leave Europe
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