History, religion, and identity in modern Britain
The twentieth century has not been kind to Britain. The great empire of the Victorian Age now seems a distant echo. The transformation in status and power has inevitably been accompanied by a pervasive questioning about the very nature of 'British' history. How are its characteristics determined? The essays, written over the past twenty-five years, in History, Religion and Identity in Modern Britain can all be said, in one way or another, to be concerned with the 'Identity of Britain' in the modern period
Aufsatzsammlung
xi, 301 pages ; 24 cm
9781852851019, 1852851015
28147215
1. History, the Historical Association and the National Past
2. History, Historians and Twentieth-Century British Public Life
3. National Identity and History: Past, Present and Future
4. Insular Outsider? 'British History' and European Integration
5. Images of the Foreigner in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Britain
6. Institutions and Illusions: The Dilemma of the Modern Ecclesiastical Historian
7. Religion and Identity in Modern British History
8. On Prophecy and Politics: Some Pragmatic Reflexions
9. The Churches in Edwardian Society
10. The Spiritual Pilgrimage of the Rev. R.J. Campbell
11. Free Churchmen and the Twenty Years' Crisis
12. Martin Niemoller, the German Church Struggle and English Opinion
13. Church and Politics: Dorothy Buxton and the German Church Struggle
14. Britain, 1940 and 'Christian Civilization'
15. Prime Ministers and Primates: Reflexions on their Twentieth-Century Relationship. 16. State and Nation in the United Kingdom since 1945
17. Core and Periphery in Modern British History
18. Varieties of Britishness
19. Wales and the Scottish Connexion
20. 'This Grubby Wreck of Old Glories': The United Kingdom and the End of the British Empire
A collection of essays which originally appeared in journals over the past 25 years