Anatomy of a nation : a history of British identity in 50 documents / Dominic Selwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Selwood, Dominic, 1970- author.

Contributor:

William E. Lingelbach Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Great Britain.

Nationalism.

Great Britain--History--Sources.

Great Britain.

History.

Genre:

Sources.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 660 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Constable, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I PREHISTORY AND ROMAN

1. Hunters and Henges

Nomads Arrive

Stonehenge, Carvings of Axe Heads and Daggers (1750

1500 BC)

2. Chariots and Woad

A Patchwork of Celtic Tribes

Julius Caesar, The Gallic War (c. 50 BC)

3. Togas and Trade

The Edge of Empire

Claudia Severa, Birthday Invitation to Sulpicia Lepidina (c. AD 100)

pt. II MEDIEVAL

4. Warriors in the Mist

The Age of Arthur

Anonymous, The History of the Britons (AD 829/830)

5. Game of Thegns

Angle-Land Emerges

Anonymous, The Seafarer (AD 650

950)

6. Rannsaka and Slahtr

Vikings Take the Throne

Anonymous, The Sayings of the High One (c. AD 900)

7. A Royal Stitch-Up - The Bastard's Cross-Channel Empire

The Bayeux Tapestry (1066

77)

8. Hpati

The Creation of a Jewelled Language

Anonymous, Beowulf (ad 700

1000)

9. When Christ and His Saints Slept

The Empress, the Usurper and the Anarchy

Anonymous, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1137)

10. A House of Devils

Angevin Lords of Rule and Misrule

The Charter of Runnymede {Magna Carta) (1215)

11. Born in Blood

Forging a United Kingdom

Anonymous, The Owl and the Nightingale (1189

1216)

12. Neumes and Tunes

The Glory of Medieval Music

Anonymous, Sumer Is Icumen In (1240)

13. King Death

Pestilence, Apocalypse and Rebirth

Anonymous, Plague Graffiti (1350/1361)

14. Three Lions and the Fleur-de-Lys

Coveting the French Crown

Joan of Arc, Letter to King Henry VI of England (1429)

15. My Welebeloued Voluntyne

Medieval Romance

Margery Brews, Valentine's Letter (1477)

16. Swords and Sorcery

The Once and Future King

Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1485)

pt. III EARLY MODERN

17. Severing Ties

Henry VIII and the Dream of Dynasty

Thomas Cromwell, Summary of an Execution (1539)

18. Smashing the Altars

Bloody Tudors

Edmund Campion, To the Right Honourable Lords of Her Majesties Privy Council (1580)

19. The Devil's Votaries

Witches in the Air

Thomas Potts, The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster (1613)

20. Bombing Parliament

Homegrown Terrorism

Gunpowder Plotter, Letter to Lord Monteagle (1605)

21. Monarchists and Regicides

The Uncivil War

The High Court of Parliament, Death Warrant of King Charles I (1649)

22. Religious Dictatorship

King Cromwell and his Saints

Margaret Cavendish Lady Newcastle, A Lady Drest by Youth (1653)

23. Prignappers in Rumvile

The Restoration's Dark Underbelly

Richard Head, The Canting Academy, or, the Devils Cabinet Opened (1673)

24. A Very British Alchemy

The Emergence of Science

Isaac Newton, The Emerald Tablet (1685

95)

25. Sapere Aude!

The British Roots of the Enlightenment

Anonymous, The Forme of Giveing the Mason Word (1696)

26. Fortunes for the Taking

Robbery on the Highways and High Seas

Admiral Sir John Norris, The Hunt for Pirate Blackbeard (1718)

pt. IV MODERN

27. The Sun Never Sets

Losing the Colonies and Gaining an Empire

Robert Clive, Letter to William Pitt on Opportunities in India (1759)

28. England's Green and Pleasant Land

The Birth of the Romantics

William Blake, And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time (1804

11)

29. Full Steam Ahead

The Age of the Machines

John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (1831)

30. Victorian Salons to Bletchley Park

The Rise of British Programmers

Ada Byron, Code for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine (1843)

31. Immigrants of the World Unite!

Marx's London Capital

Sergeant W. Reinners, Rejection of Karl Marx's Application for Naturalization (1874)

32. Men of Harlech

Weaving a Tale in Zululand

Lieutenant (Brevet Major) John Chard VC, Sketches of Rorke's Drift for Queen Victoria (1880)

33. Slaughter in the Slums

Poverty and Terror in Whitechapel

`Jack the Ripper', Letter from Hell (1888)

34. Chewing Barbed Wire

The End of Empire

12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters, The Wipers Times (1916

18)

35. The Unholy Land

Britain's Palestine Dilemma

Arthur Balfour, The Balfour Declaration (1917)

36. Flights of Fancy

The Idyll of the English Countryside

Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending (1914/1920)

37. A Nation of Books and letters

The British Type

Harry Beck and Edward Johnston, Map of London's Underground Railways (1933)

38. SS-GB

Hitler's Targets in Britain

Reich Main Security Office, Specially Wanted List G.B. (1940)

39. Roisin Dubh

Ireland's Long Road to Independence

Winston Churchill, Telegram to Eamon de Valera (1941)

40. Youth, Sex and Concrete

Britain Takes a Modern Turn

Mervyn Griffith-Jones qc, Opening Speech in Regina v. Penguin Books Limited (Lady Chatterley's Lover) (1960)

41. Strikes, Grime and Safety Pins

The Decade of Discontent

Jamie Reid, Cover Art for Sex Pistols, God Save the Queen (1977)

42. The Armalite and Ballot Box

Northern Ireland's Troubles

The Provisional IRA, The Execution of Soldier Mounthatten (1979)

43. Rule Britannia! Britannia's Making Waves

Shadows of Empire in the South Atlantic

The Sun, Gotcha (1982)

44. Shaken and Stirred

Treachery in the Intelligence Services

Peter Wright, Spycatcher (1988)

45. Picket Lines and Parody

The Lady Is Not for Turning

Spitting Image, The Last Prophecies of Spitting Image (1996)

46. Snail Porridge

A New Politics and Cool Britannia

The Fat Duck, Tasting Menu (1999)

47. Weapons of Mass Destruction

Wrecking Iraq and the Global Financial System

Tony Blair, Foreword to Iraq `Dodgy Dossier' (2002)

48. Island Fever

The Perennial Europe Conundrum

HM Government, `Brexit' Referendum Ballot Paper (2016)

49. Wunderkammern

Collecting Britain's Past

Pheidias, The Parthenon Sculptures (438 bc/2020)

50. Sailing By!

The Waters of History

BBC Radio 4, `The Ships' (2020).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William E. Lingelbach Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781472131898

1472131894

OCLC:

1263802610

Publisher Number:

99988677950