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3 giorni fa · This is what the British people were asked this week in a fascinating new poll. And the results are striking. While nearly six in ten Brits, 58%, say they are ‘very’ or ‘fairly’ patriotic, just over one in three of them, 35%, say they are ‘not very’ or ‘not at all’ patriotic. And, as usual, there are some enormous differences ...
4 giorni fa · I thought I knew Britain in 1969, when I came to this country from India to study at Loughborough University. But I quickly realised that was not the case. For me, the last half-century has been a ...
2 giorni fa · He was one of some 4,000 British political prisoners and social protesters who, between 1787 and 1868, were transported to penal colonies as punishment for fighting for their rights. Sent to the farm of the Governor of Tasmania, Loveless learned of the Governor’s systematic displacement of Aboriginal people, who were being driven off their traditional lands to inhospitable and isolated ...
3 giorni fa · The Rise and Fall of the British Nation takes up these arguments but goes beyond them, reaching out to social and cultural as well as military, political, economic and technological history. Edgerton seeks to explain how a British nation was constructed after 1945, emerging out of the British Empire and the global, free trade economy ...
4 giorni fa · With the threat of communism and the new role of UNESCO in educational film advocacy, Rice demonstrates how the CFU situated its films not only as instructional guides for teaching modern agriculture and medicine but also as tools for instilling British values at the centre of African nation building.
19 ore fa · The culture of the United Kingdom is influenced by its combined nations' history; its historically Christian religious life, its interaction with the cultures of Europe, the individual cultures of England, Wales and Scotland and the impact of the British Empire. The culture of the United Kingdom may also colloquially be referred to as British ...
3 giorni fa · Price: £25.00. In the autumn of 2011 the near-simultaneous publication of a number of books on the British Empire promised to add fresh momentum to the debate, if debate is the word, on the memories – or lack of them – that the British people currently carry for their empire. (1) Jeremy Paxman, with Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the ...
