Colls Robert - Englishness: politics and culture 1880-192

Englishness

Englishness

Politics and Culture 18801920

Second Edition

EDITED BY ROBERT COLLS AND PHILIP DODD

AFTERWORD BY WILL SELF

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First published by Croom Helm, 1986

Second edition published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Robert Colls, Philip Dodd, 1986, 2014

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Englishness: politics and culture 18801920/edited by Robert Colls and Philip Dodd; afterword by Will Self. [Second edition].

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4725-2753-0 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-4725-2267-2 (pbk.) ISBN 978-1-4725-2569-7 (epdf) ISBN 978-1-4725-2334-1 (epub) 1. EnglandCivilization20th century. 2. EnglandCivilization19th century. 3. National characteristics, English. I. Colls, Robert. II. Dodd, Philip, 1949

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CONTENTS

D. George Boyce is emeritus professor in the University of Swansea, UK. He has published and edited books and articles on British, Irish and Imperial history, including Nationalism in Ireland (3rd. ed., 1995), The Irish Question in British Politics, 18681996 (2nd. ed., 1996), Decolonisation and the British Empire, 17751997 (London, 1999), The Falklands War of 1982 (2005), The Ulster Crisis (co-edited with Alan ODay, 2006), and Gladstone and Ireland: politics, religion and nationality in the Victorian Age (co-edited with Alan ODay, 2010). He is working on the political ideas of the Victorian novelist Charles Lever (18061872) and read a paper on Lever, the Landlords and the Union at the Lever Bicentenary Conference, University of Pisa, 2006, which was published in Anglistica Pisana, Vol. IV, 2007. He is also editing a collection of letters written by an Irish officer who served in the Crimean War of 185456.

Peter Brooker is emeritus professor in the Department of Culture, Film and Media, the University of Nottingham, UK. Between 2008 and 2010, he was professorial fellow at the Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex, UK. He has written widely on modernism and contemporary writing and is the author of Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics (1989), New York Fictions (1996), Modernity and Metropolis (2004), Bohemia in London (2004, 2007), and A Glossary of Cultural Theory (1999, 2002). He edited Modernism/Postmodernism (1992) and more recently co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (2010). He was principal investigator on the AHRC Modernist Magazines Project (2005-2010) and lead editor of the three-volume Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines . He served between 2005 and 2011 as chair of the Raymond Williams Society and is currently working on a biofiction of 3 years in the life of Ford Madox Ford.

Robert Colls is professor of Cultural History in the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Before that, he taught at Vaughan College in the University of Leicesters Department of Adult Education, and was professor of English History in the School of Historical Studies. He has held fellowships at Yale, Dortmund, and St Johns College, Oxford. His most recent book is George Orwell. English Rebel (2013).

Jeremy Crump joined the Home Office in 1986, having completed a PhD in social history at Warwick University. After his career in the civil service which also included time in the Treasury, the Cabinet Office and the National Policing Improvement Agency, he worked for the IT company, Cisco Systems. He has been a visitor at Leeds University Business School, the Oxford Internet Institute and Nuffield College, Oxford. He is an associate of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos and a fellow of the British Computer Society. In 2013, Jeremy resumed research on the social history of sport and popular culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, where he is a visiting fellow.

Hugh Cunningham is emeritus professor of Social History at the University of Kent, UK. His work has covered the histories of leisure, patriotism, national identity, childhood and philanthropy. The language of patriotism, 17501914, History Workshop Journal , No. 12 (1981), explored the rise and decline of radical expressions of patriotism. His books include The Children of the Poor: Representations of Childhood since the Seventeenth Century; Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500; The Challenge of Democracy: Britain 1832-1918; The Invention of Childhood; Grace Darling: Victorian Heroine; and Time, Work and Leisure: Changing Lives in England since 1700 .

Philip Dodd is former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, former editor of the BFIs Sight and Sound , chairman of Made in China (UK) Ltd, and a regular BBC broadcaster. His work on national identity has taken many forms, including the Demos pamphlet The Battle Over Britain ; the exhibition Spellbound; Art and Film at the Hayward Gallery, and his involvement as creative consultant in the UK Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo. He has been visiting professor at Kings College, London, UK, and currently holds the same post at the University of the Arts, London, UK.

Brian Doyle (19431997). Brian s work on the historical and ideological formation of the discipline of English culminated in his influential book English and Englishness (1989). In later years, his interests had turned towards what he called changing the culture of Cultural Studies, mounting an explicitly humanistic critique of the professionalization of the discipline and its concern with high theory.

Alun Howkins is a professor emeritus of Social History, University of Sussex, UK, and a honorary professor in the School of History, University of East Anglia, UK. He was born in rural Oxfordshire and left school at the age of 15 to work on the land. After a variety of jobs he went to Ruskin College, Oxford, as a trade union student. From there he did a BA at Oxford and a PhD at the University of Essex. His doctorate was published as Poor Labouring Men. Rural radicalism in Norfolk 18721924 in 1985. This was followed by Reshaping Rural England (1991, 2003) and The Death of Rural England (2003). He was a founder editor of History Workshop Journal and has remained a member of the editorial board ever since. He is a past president of the British Agricultural History Society. He is currently a Trustee of Diss Corn Hall in Norfolk and is working on its history and the history of its associated townscape. He is also working on the early history of socialism in Kings Lynn.

Alice Jane Mackay is a freelance consultant and oral historian working with local groups and organisations to preserve and enhance community archive collections and make hidden historical sources more widely known. She is a member and director of Waltham Forest Oral History Workshop, Londons longest-established oral history group, with an archive of more than 600 recordings. Previously a library manager, it was her work at Ruskin College, Oxford, and as librarian of the City Literary Institute and Bishopsgate Institute in London that led her to focus on encouraging wider public involvement with archives and local heritage. She is currently working on an oral history project exploring the influence of Kingsley Hall in Bromley-by-Bow and its founders, socialist feminists, pacifists and educationalists Muriel and Doris Lester, on the lives and families of the people who took part in its activities.