Ruling the Roast
David A. Bell: A Nation of Beefeaters, 25 September 2003
Beef and Liberty: Roast Beef, John Bull and the English Nation
by Ben Rogers.
Chatto, 207 pp., £17.99, April 2003,9780701169800 Show More
by Ben Rogers.
Chatto, 207 pp., £17.99, April 2003,
“... symbols of Englishness: the bulldog, and John Bull (here he draws heavily on the work of Miles Taylor). Both supposedly represented the same qualities of directness, determination and courage. In the case of the bulldog, which took its name from the grisly sport of bull-baiting rather than from any resemblance to the animal, these qualities seemed to be ... ”