Simon Heffer

What does it really mean to feel English?

The trouble with defining ‘Englishness’ is that it means something precise but different to each English individual, Ailsa Henderson and Richard Wyn Jones discover

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  • Englishness: The Political Force Transforming Britain

    Ailsa Henderson and Richard Wyn Jones

    OUP, pp. 256, £30

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