Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Being British: What's Wrong With It?
    Unavailable
    Being British: What's Wrong With It?
    Unavailable
    Being British: What's Wrong With It?
    Ebook202 pages3 hours

    Being British: What's Wrong With It?

    By Peter Whittle

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    The Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics look set to make 2012 as successful as the royal weddings of 2011 when it comes to creating a surge of patriotism across our once self-assured land. But despite the latest wave of nostalgic British pride, Britain is in the midst of an identity crisis, with British values and identity the butt of scorn and sneers. Motivated by the sense that the notion of Britishness has been hijacked, and intrigued by the ever-vexed question of British identity and what it really means, Peter Whittle has set out to examine what's actually wrong with being British. With his trademark wit and insight, Whittle explores how, despite being chipped away at from all sides for the past five decades, pride in being British has shown an amazing ability to survive.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBiteback Publishing
    Release dateJun 6, 2012
    ISBN9781849544313
    Unavailable
    Being British: What's Wrong With It?

    Related to Being British

    Related ebooks

    Social Science For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Pakistan’s Poisonous Politics

      Nov 12, 2022

      Pakistan’s Poisonous Politics
      2 min read

    • Article

      Mouldy Mandarins

      Nov 25, 2021

      ONCE BRITISH IMPERIAL AMBITION coloured the map of the globe pink. Now it must surely be largely green with envy, as there are so many things in Britain for the rest of the world to covet: our judges, our police, our BBC, our NHS, of course, and perh

      3 min read

    • Article

      Michael Wood On…

      Dec 23, 2020

      I’ve put this one off, I’ll be honest. After all, it’s been building up for quite a while. But on 1 January 2021 we finally leave the European Union. How will historians see this moment? Too early to tell, you will rightly say, but historians taking

      3 min read

    • Article

      Visions of England

      May 11, 2023

      Visions of England
      4 min read

    • Article

      Bird’s Words

      Jun 5, 2023

      Here is a Pegasus cup. Cups are sold liberally at a cafe by the River Orne near Ranville in Normandy, northern France. At this time of the year, early June, the place is abuzz with tourists wanting to buy these cups and other memorabilia from the caf

      3 min read

    • Article

      Cruel Britannia A Historian Looks At Britain’s Fraught Race Relations – And Their Complex Relationship With Class – Through The Lens Of Empire

      Sep 1, 2023

      Cruel Britannia A Historian Looks At Britain’s Fraught Race Relations – And Their Complex Relationship With Class – Through The Lens Of Empire
      3 min read

    • Article

      Don’t Mention The War

      Jun 29, 2023

      I RECENTLY PUBLISHED A BOOK WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY DANGEROUS if anyone had read it. It was called The Phoney Victory, though quite a lot of the few people who bought it wrongly think it was called “The Phoney War”. I can only assume this is becau

      5 min read

    • Article

      “We Paid Respect To The Late Monarch But Also Projected An Idea Of Britain”

      Oct 27, 2022

      THE FUNERAL OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II WATCHING THE DRAMA OF THE QUEEN'S funeral unfold, I had a strong sense that future historians will see this moment as the end of the postwar world. The funeral was an epic piece of theatre. Though its rituals were la

      3 min read

    • Article

      How Britain Falls Apart

      Jan 5, 2022

      Photographs by Robbie Lawrence The grim reality for Britain as it faces up to 2022 is that no other major power on Earth stands quite as close to its own dissolution. Given its recent record, perhaps this should not be a surprise. In the opening two

      16 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jan 21, 2021

      Letters
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Renewal Of Englishness

      May 26, 2022

      STATE-OF-THE-NATION BOOKS can often be unsatisfactorily abstract as their writers delve into shifting identities and evolving social trends, especially when looking back on Britain, and England, since 1945. Jason Cowley, editor of the New Statesman a

      4 min read

    • Article

      I Was Born In The 90s. So Why Am I Suddenly Nostalgic For The 70s? | James Greig

      Feb 12, 2021

      I’ve been experiencing a lot of nostalgia over the last few months, which is no surprise: the feeling often comes during moments of stasis. Lots of people are expressing a longing for the time before coronavirus, but we’ve been in this pandemic long

      4 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Oct 29, 2020

      I read with interest about Captain Francis Grose and his contribution to the English language (My History Hero, November). However, Captain Grose also had a hand in creating one of Scotland’s most famous literary figures, Tam O’Shanter by Robert Burn

      6 min read

    • Article

      Reporting On The Troubles

      Oct 31, 2019

      Reporting On The Troubles
      8 min read

    • Article

      Now And Then

      Nov 24, 2023

      Now And Then
      3 min read

    • Article

      Our Politics Of Nostalgia Is A Sure Sign Of Present-day Decay

      Jun 26, 2021

      The belief that the past was better than the present, and the only way forward is back, can be found in the corners of any society at any time. But when nostalgia grows to dominate Britain and much of the west it is as sure a symptom of decay as the

      4 min read

    • Article

      Coming To Terms With The Past

      Apr 28, 2021

      OVER the past year, many UK organisations and businesses have been going out of their way to be seen to represent, reflect and answer the needs of our culturally diverse society. That strikes Athena as something positive; a society that can unite wit

      2 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jun 24, 2021

      You opened Paul Rafaelle’s marvellous recollections of life as a resident correspondent in the Chinese capital by noting that Mr Rafaelle had been stationed in “Peking (now Beijing)”. Actually, it is still Peking, just as Moskva is Moscow, Warszawa i

      3 min read

    • Article

      Behind Palace Doors

      Dec 21, 2023

      Behind Palace Doors
      5 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Apr 15, 2021

      Letters
      4 min read

    Reviews for Being British

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words