History, Nationhood and the Question of Britain

A. AUGHEY Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Uster, Jordanstown, Ireland Y. ALIBHAI-BROWN Writer and Journalist S. BARBER Lecturer in History, Lancaster University, Lancaster G. BARCLAY Researcher G. BEINER Government of Ireland Research Fellow, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland C. BERBERICH Lecturer in English Literature, University of Derby L. COLLEY Leverhulme Research Professor and School Professor in History, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London M. CONBOY Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Senior Research Degree Tutor, Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College, Surrey N. DAVIES Professor Emeritus of London University, and Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford G. DAWSON Cultural historian, University of Brighton A. DAY Lecturer in History, University College, Chichester M. DIAZ-ANDREU Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Durham J. EDMUNDS Researcher D. EASTWOOD Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board N. EVANS Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University, Wales R. FLOYD Researcher B. GRAHAM Director of the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages and Professor of Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster A. ICHIJO Research Profect Officer H. KEARNEY Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh, USA K. J. LEWIS Lecturer in History, University of Huddersfield J. LITTLER Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University D. LOWENTHAL Professor Emeritus of Geography and Honarary Research Fellow at University College London K. LUNN Reader in Social History, University of Portsmouth R. MASON Lecturer in Museum, Gallery and Heritage Studies, University of Newcastle T MODOOD Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol R. NAIDOO Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University A. O'DAY Fellow in Modern History, Greyfriars, University of Oxford M. PARIS Reader in Modern History, University of Central Lancashire M.G.H. PITTOCK Professor of Scottish and Romantic Literature, University of Manchester B. PORTER Emeritus Professor of History, University of Newcastle J. RIDDEN Lecturer, Australian National University K. ROBBINS Vice Chancellor, University of Wales Lampeter I. P. A. SMITH Research Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge P. WARD Lecturer in Modern British History, University of Huddersfield S. WARD Lecturer in History, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London and the University of Southern Denmark B. WALKER Director of the Institute for Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast C. WILLIAMS Professor and Director, Centre for Modern and Contemporary Wales, University of Glamorgan P. YEANDLE Researcher, University of Lancaster

Foreword; N.Davies - Introduction; R.Phillips and H.Brocklehurst - PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL BRITAINS - British History and the Generation of Change; K.Robbins - Four Nations History in Perspective; H.Kearney - The Changing Context of Welsh Historiography: 1890-2000; N.Evans - Enlightenment Historiography and its Legacy; M.G.H.Pittock - Three Fables of Britishness; A.Aughey - PART II: BRITISH IDENTITY, NATIONALISM AND ETHNICITY - Perspectives on Irish Identity, Nationalism and Ethnicity; A.O'Day - Redefinding Britannia: The role of 'Marginal'Generations in Reshaping British National Consciousness; J.Edmunds - Britishness out of Immigration and Anti-Racism; T.Modood - The Place of Ulster: Alternative Loyalist Identities; B.Graham - Civic or Ethnic? The Evolution of Britishness and Scottishness; A.Ichijo - Britain as Island: National Identity and the Sea; K.Lunn and A.Day - The Island Garden: English Landscape and British Identity; D.Lowenthal - PART III: BRITISH IDENTITY AND HISTORICAL NARRATIVES - 'Four Nations Prehistory': Cores and Archetypes in the Writing of Prehistory; G.Barclay - Anglo-Saxon Saint's Lives, History and National Identity in Late Medieval England; K.J.Lewis - Antithesis: How to Create a Nation; S.Barber - 449 and all that: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Interpretations of the 'Anglo-Saxon Invasion' of Britain; R.Floyd - Elite Power and British Political Identity: The Irish Elite in the 'British World'; J.Ridden - Nationalism and National Identity in British Politics, c. 1880s to 1914; P.Ward - PART IV: EMPIRE AND ITS LEGACIES - Britain and the Other: The Archaeology of Imperialism; M.Diaz-Andreu - The End of Empire and the Fate of Britishness; S.Ward - Empire and British National Identity, 1815-1914; B.Porter - Lessons in Englishness and Empire, c. 1880-1914: Further Thoughts on the English/British Conundrum; P.Yeandle - PART V: HERITAGE, COMMEMORATION AND TRAUMA - The Youth of Our Nation in Symbol Making and Remaking the Masculine Ideal in the Era of the Two World Wars; M.Paris - National Identity, Re-enactment and Conflict: A Usable Past?; A.I.P.Smith - (D)evolving Identities: Changing Representations of National Identity in Scottish and Welsh Museums; R.Mason - White Past, Multicultural Present: Heritage and National Stories; J.Littler and R.Naidoo - Rethinking 'Footnotes' to British/Irish History: Vernacular Historiographies, Folk Commemoration and 'Porous Meta-Narratives'; G.Beiner - Ulster - British Identity and the Cultural Memory of 'Genocide' and 'Ethnic Cleansing' on the Northern Ireland Border; G.Dawson - PART VI: ENGLISH STORIES AND 'THE' NATIONAL PAST? - 'I was mediating about England': the Importance of Rural England for the Construction of 'Englishness'; C.Berberich - 'You're History!' Media Representation, Nationhood and the National Past; H.Brocklehurst and R.Phillips - Heroes and Demons as Historical Bookmarks in the English Popular Press; M.Conboy