Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so diff

Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so diff

Ideas of Englishness, and of the English nation, have become a matter of renewed interest in recent years as a result of threats to the integrity of the United

Essays on the early modern period that make a special contribution to the development of the 'new British history'.

Making the Englishmen offers an account of how national identities were construed and contested in the post-Reformation public sphere 1550-1650.