England & Englishness (TRIH ep 180)
2016 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Jason Cowley about his book Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England, using George Orwell's essay The Lion and the Unicorn as a touchstone. The conversation traces continuities and paradoxes in English identity: nostalgia and loss, the legacy of empire and migration, devolution and the rise of Scottish nationalism, and recent political convulsions including the 2014 Scottish referendum, the 2015 election and the 2016 Brexit vote. Cowley and t...
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