The Words Of Nations: England, Scotland & Wales

What words come to the English, the Scots, and the Welsh when they are asked to summarize the history of their country?

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/11-2023-5/words-nations-england-scotland-wales/

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The Words Of Nations: England, Scotland & Wales

What words come to the English, the Scots, and the Welsh when they are asked to summarize the history of their country?

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/11-2023-5/words-nations-england-scotland-wales/

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When was Britain? Answers from Scotland and England

The contexts in which the term ‘Britain’ is favoured over ‘England’, ‘Scotland’ or ‘UK’ reveals much about the underlying assumptions.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/11-2023-5/britain-england-scotland/

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Collecting and Dividing Identities in the Age of Brexit

Contemporary populist narratives tend to foreground “othering” to a remarkable degree. Is there a future for “collectivity” in an age of division?

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/8-2020-2/identities-brexit/

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On the Presences and Absences of Pasts

Despite its limitations, perhaps etymology can point to subterranean connections between words, spark possibilities for reflection and, thus, create or make explicit neglected semantic possibilities?

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-24/etymology-historical-thinking/

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Understanding Empire in the 21st Century

People should have some understanding of what empires are, and what effect they have. What questions are worth asking about the concept of Empire at this point in the 21st century?

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-13/understanding-empires/

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LUK – Reading Re-Writings of Official History

Official narratives as in LUK give us insights into national identity management. This is particularly true when they aim to project identity outwards.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-3/luk/

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The Whig Tradition and Commonwealth History

British and Commonwealth history are deeply entangled. A fresh approach is not to look at British action, but at the Commonwealth' own agency and decisions.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-32/commonwealth-history/

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For what it is ‘worth’? Neoliberalism and Public History

This work arose from considerations of the relationship between Public History and the newly marketized UK University sector, mainly through focussing on the skills and impact agenda – neoliberalism on the ground.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-12/neoliberalism-public-history/

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