EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY armed conflicts have been identified by some historians as one of
the ingredients promoting a popular sense of Britishness. Linda Colley, in particular, has …

In justly celebrated recent publications, Linda Colley has argued that the experience of
waging war during the eighteenth century helped to develop a growing sense of British …

Examinations of national identity and nationalism have been and remain a staple of
historical research for medievalists and modernists alike. Works have considered the …

It is perhaps a consolation, if not a help, to find that this sense of bewilderment at the Civil
War was shared by some of those who lived through it. Sir Thomas Knyvett, in 1644 …

Neither the idea that Britain 'stood alone'in 1940, nor that the British war was a 'people's
war', were at all common during the Second World War. If anything was thought to be 'alone' …

James Sherborne gave his entire academic career to the University of Bristol. He was
appointed to an assistant lectureship in the Department of History under Professor David …

This book explores the impact of the wars of 1739-63 on Britain and Ireland. The period was
dominated by armed struggle between Britain and the Bourbon powers, particularly France …

In the last decades of the thirteenth century the British Isles appeared to be on the point of
unified rule, dominated by the lordship, law and language of the English. However by 1400 …

English historians have over the past decade or so engaged in a salutary exercise in self-
criticism. With the erosion of old certainties about the manifest destiny of English …

This book is about the British experience of the First World War, the way that experience was
represented, in different media, and how those representations fed into the broader …