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Great Britain

THE PRESENT AND THE PAST
General Editors: Michael Crowder and Juliet Gardiner

These books provide the historical background necessary for a proper understanding of the major nations and regions of the contemporary world. Each contributor illuminates the present political, social, cultural and economic structures of his nation or region through the study of its past. The books, which are fully illustrated with maps and photographs, are written for students, teachers and general readers; and will appeal not only to historians but also to political scientists, economists and sociologists who seek to set their own studies of a particular nation or region in historical perspective.

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Great Britain: Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness Keith Robbins

THE PRESENT AND THE PAST

Great Britain

Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness

Keith Robbins

First published 1998 by Addison Wesley Longman Limited

Published 2013 by Routledge
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Copyright 1998, Taylor & Francis.

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ISBN 13: 978-0-582-03119-7 (pbk)

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Robbins, Keith
Great Britain: identities, institutions, and the idea of Britishness /
Keith Robbins.
p. cm. (The present and the past)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-582-03138-9 (csd.) ISBN 0-582-03119-2 (ppr)
1. National characteristics, BritishHistory. 2. Group identity-Great Britain
History. 3. Great BritainCivilization. 4. EthnologyGreat Britain. I. Title. II. Series.
DA110.R66 1997
941--dc21

96-53505
CIP

Set by 7 in 10/12 Sabon

Contents

Part 1: Great Britain Creation, Crisis, Consolidation

Designs and Accidents: Making Great Britain c. 1500c.1700

Precedents and Rights: The British Body Politic c.1500c.1750

Truth, Uniformity and Toleration: Making a British Compromise? c.1500c.1750

Preservation and Progress: Representing the People c.1745c.1845

Preservation and Progress: Representing the People, c.1845c.1945

Churches and Chapels: Believing in Britain c.1745c.1945

Established pattern: England, Scotland and Wales c.1745c.1845

Dissenting accommodation: England, Scotland and Wales c.1745c.1845

Dissent progressive dissolution: England, Scotland, Wales c.1845c.1945

Communities and Countries: Believing in Britain c.17450.1945

Map 1.	England, Scotland and Wales
Map 2.	England and Wales counties before 1975
Map 3.	Scotland counties before 1975
Map 4.	England and Wales
Map 5.	Scotland

Statue of King Alfred by Hamo Thorneycroft, Winchester Cathedral

The Stone of Scone returning to Scotland, Coldstream, 1996

The Peasants' Revolt, from a later fifteenth-century copy of Jean Froissart's Chronicles

John Knox admonishing Mary Queen of Scots; engraving after Sir William Allan's painting

The Quaker's Meeting, mezzotint engraved by Isaac Bowles after the painting by Egbert von Heemskirk

Dutch Ships in the Medway, June 1667, Willem Schellinks

French "Liberty" contrasted with British "Slavery", James Gillray, 1792

The House of Lords, the Home Rule debate of 1893, oil painting by Dickinson and Foster

The author's grandfather and great-grandparents, with their corner shop

Labour victory 26th July 1945: Clement Attlee speaking at Labour's celebratory meeting in London

Souvenir handkerchief from the Festival of Britain, 1951

A central Manchester street after the explosion of the IRA bomb, June 1996.

The publishers would like to thank the following for granting permission to reproduce illustrative material: the Governor and Company of the Bank of England for .

While every effort has been made to trace the owners of copyright material, we take this opportunity to offer our apologies to any copyright holders whose rights we may have unwittingly infringed.

Historians who investigate the long past of their own country have both advantage and disadvantage. From childhood onwards they have received a long induction into its conventions and institutions, and have explored its landscape. They may subsequently scrupulously cultivate detachment and seek objectivity, but cannot ultimately escape the influence of their environment. They inevitably absorb, to a greater or lesser degree, its working myths and assumptions by virtue of their own social existence. They know, or think they know, 'their' past as much by intuition and experience as by the fruits of their reading and research. There is the danger, in consequence, that they take that past as normative and miss its oddity. A history written by 'outsiders', on the other hand, can be more sharply aware of national idiosyncrasy, but it also may not 'ring true' because external onlookers may not fully grasp the rules of the national game.

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