Identity Parade

Linda Colley

  • People and Places: Country House Donors and the National Trust by James Lees-Milne
    Murray, 232 pp, £19.99, October 1992, ISBN 0 7195 5145 5
  • The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660-1769 by Michael Dobson
    Oxford, 266 pp, £30.00, October 1992, ISBN 0 19 811233 5
  • Myths of the English edited by Roy Porter
    Polity, 280 pp, £39.50, October 1992, ISBN 0 7456 0844 2
  • Fields of Vision: Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States by Stephen Daniels
    Polity, 257 pp, £39.50, November 1992, ISBN 0 7456 0450 1

‘I will never, come hell or high water, let our distinctive British identity be lost in a federal Europe.’ John Major’s ringing assurance to last year’s Conservative Party Conference is part of a long tradition whereby Britishness has been defined primarily by reference to a real or an imaginary Other. Understandably so, since defining this entity in its own terms has always been problematic and is fast becoming more so.

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Vol. 15 No. 4 · 25 February 1993 » Linda Colley » Identity Parade (print version)
Pages 7-8 | 3773 words