InhaltsangabeIntroduction: The Britishness Question (Andrew Gamble and Tony Wright). 1. 'Bursting with Skeletons': Britishness after Empire (David Marquand). 2. Does Britishness Still Matter in the Twenty-First Century - and How Much and How Well Do the Politicians Care? (Linda Colley). 3. Being British (Bhikhu Parekh). 4. Britishness: a Role for the State? (Varun Uberoi and Iain McLean). 5. England and Britain, Europe and the Anglosphere (David Willetts). 6. What Britishness means to the British (Peter Kellner). 7. The BBC and Metabolising Britishness. Critical Patriotism (Jean Seaton). 8. Don't Mess with the Missionary Man: Brown, Moral Compasses and the Road to Britishness (Gerry Hassan). 9. Britishness and the Future of the Union (Robert Hazell). 10. Devolution, Britishness and the Future of the Union (Charlie Jeffery). 11. Englishness in Contemporary British Politics (Richard English, Richard Hayton and Michael Kenny)> 12. The Wager of Devolution and the Challenge to Britishness (Arthur Aughey) 13. Do We Really Need Britannia? (Bernard Crick). 14. Churchill's Dover Speech (1946) (Peter Hennessy). Index.

Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is joint editor of The Political Quarterly and his books include Between Europe and America: The Future of British Politics (2003) and Politics and Fate (2000). Tony Wright is MP for Cannock Chase and Chairman of the Public Administration Committee in the House of Commons. He is joint editor of The Political Quarterly and his books include The British Political Process (1999) and Socialisms: Old and New (1996). Andrew Gamble and Tony Wright have also co-edited The New Social Democracy (1999) and Restating The State? (2004).

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