Parliamentary affairs: A special edition on Britishness

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 223-228

  McGlynn, Catherine ^a   Mycock, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77950229770     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: 14602482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsp034     Document Type: Article

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1. Catherine McGlynn is a Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Behavioural Sciences at the University of Huddersfield. Her research interests include ethnically differentiated citizenship rights, prospects for conflict transformation, and devolution and constitutional change in the UK. Andrew Mycock is a Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Behavioural Sciences at the University of Huddersfield. He is a co-founder of the Academy for the Study of Britishness based at Huddersfield and co-convenor of the Political Studies Association Britishness Specialist Group. In bringing together the contributions to this edition we were fortunate to receive the support of the University of Huddersfield and the Political Studies Association, which allowed us to organise a seminar where the authors presented their work to an academic audience. Professor Paul Ward and Dr Richard Hayton took the role of discussants and the event provided a platform for rigorous debate on what will continue to be a contentious and important topic in the UK's political discourse.
2. See, for example, Brown's speech to the Fabian Society on 14 January 2006 or his article, 'The golden thread that runs through our history', The Guardian, 8 July 2004.
3. L. Colley Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837, Yale University Press, 1992.
4. For an introduction to the extensive historiography on British history and the origins of Britishness, see H. Kearney, The British Isles: A History of Four Nations, Cambridge University Press, 1989;
5. K. Robbins, Great Britain: Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness (The Present and The Past), Longman, 1998;
6. N. Davies, The Isles: A History, Macmillan, 1999;
7. R. Weight, Patriots: National Identity in Britain 1940-2000, MacMillan, 2002.
8. See, for example, C. Bryant, The Nations of Britain, Cambridge University Press, 2006; A. Aughey, The Politics of Englishness, Manchester University Press, 2007;
9. T.M. Devine, Scotland and the Union, 1707-2007, Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
10. See, for example, T. Nairn, The Break-up of Britain, New Left Books, 1977; T.M. Devine, The Scottish Nation, 1707-2000, Allen Lane, 1999;
11. G.A. Williams, When Was Wales? A History of the Welsh, Penguin, 1985;
12. M. Pittock, The Road to Independence? Scotland since the Sixties, Reaktion Books, 2008;
13. R. English, Irish Freedom: The History of Irish Nationalism, Macmillan, 2006.
14. See M. Hechter, Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966, University of California, 1975.
15. See M. Perryman, 'A Jigsaw State' in M. Perryman (ed.), Breaking Up Britain: Four Nations after a Union, Lawrence and Wishart, 2009.
16. T. Devine, After Britain: New Labour and the Return of Scotland, Granta Books, 2000.
17. See also, P. Hitchens, The Abolition of Britain, Quartet Books, 1999;
18. A. Marr, The Day Britain Died, Profile Books, 2000;
19. M. Perryman (ed.), Imagined Nation: England After Britain, Lawrence and Wishart, 2008.
20. K. Kumar, The Making of English National Identity, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
21. M. D'Ancona, Being British, Mainstream Publishing, 2009.
22. Murray Leith identifies a similar de-ethnicising of the SNP's projection of Scottishness in election materials, see M. Leith, 'Scottish National Party Representations of Scottishness and Scotland', Politics, 28, 2008, 83-92.
23. See, for example, G. Brown, 'We need a United Kingdom', Daily Telegraph, 13 January 2007.
24. A. Mycock, 'Cameron's Conservatives might learn from their own history', 2009. Available at www .opendemocracy.net/blog/andy-mycock.
25. S. Lee, 'Gordon Brown and the 'British Way' Political Quarterly, 77, 2008, 368-378.
26. Cameron made this dig in his online reply to an open letter from the Conservative Home editor Tim Montgomerie on 10 July 2009, see conservativehome/blogs.com