Add to ORKGFollowing this summer’s open letter to the Home Office, this article by Frank Trentmann offers an analysis of the official history chapter in the ‘Life in the UK’ handbook that is required reading for migrants applying for citizenship or settlement in the United Kingdom. Comparing the current (third) edition to previous versions, the article documents a pattern of rewriting the national past, especially over issues of race and Britain’s relation to Europe and the rest of the world. It shows distortion and falsification in the account of slavery, empire, Anglo-Irish relations, and Hitler and the Second World War. The essay places the rewriting of Britain’s past in the context of the Home Office’s hostile environment to migrants after 2013 an...
This article argues that the traditional efforts to invest moral meaning in narratives of the nation...
This article argues that there are important connections between what is happening in Brexit and mat...
The Labour government has acknowledged the ‘enormous bonds of commonality’ (T. Blair, speech to Comm...
This essay reviews the increasingly rich recent literature on 20th-century transnational movements f...
Britain has largely been in denial of its migrant past - it is often suggested that the arrivals aft...
(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial vio...
This paper looks at how the British media addressed the issue of migration in Europe between 2015 an...
Abstract Racism in Britain is rooted in history. This article considers the ways in which Britishnes...
(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial vio...
It has long been acknowledged that British history cannot be exclusively constructed from the histor...
This article approaches debates about how the history of the post-1945 English welfare state might b...
The growth of public and academic interest in Englishness has raised important questions about post-...
In March 2022 the United Kingdom (UK) government published Inclusive Britain: the government’s respo...
This article addresses how (‘selective’) British memory has served to emphasize the extreme violence...
This joint-authored essay concludes the thematic issue ‘Marking Race’. Drawing on the authors’ indiv...
This article argues that the traditional efforts to invest moral meaning in narratives of the nation...
This article argues that there are important connections between what is happening in Brexit and mat...
The Labour government has acknowledged the ‘enormous bonds of commonality’ (T. Blair, speech to Comm...
This essay reviews the increasingly rich recent literature on 20th-century transnational movements f...
Britain has largely been in denial of its migrant past - it is often suggested that the arrivals aft...
(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial vio...
This paper looks at how the British media addressed the issue of migration in Europe between 2015 an...
Abstract Racism in Britain is rooted in history. This article considers the ways in which Britishnes...
(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial vio...
It has long been acknowledged that British history cannot be exclusively constructed from the histor...
This article approaches debates about how the history of the post-1945 English welfare state might b...
The growth of public and academic interest in Englishness has raised important questions about post-...
In March 2022 the United Kingdom (UK) government published Inclusive Britain: the government’s respo...
This article addresses how (‘selective’) British memory has served to emphasize the extreme violence...
This joint-authored essay concludes the thematic issue ‘Marking Race’. Drawing on the authors’ indiv...
This article argues that the traditional efforts to invest moral meaning in narratives of the nation...
This article argues that there are important connections between what is happening in Brexit and mat...
The Labour government has acknowledged the ‘enormous bonds of commonality’ (T. Blair, speech to Comm...