Jay Doubleyou: britishness

What are the elements which make up 'Britishness'?

What towns are 'typically British'?

My local town. Typically British in. every. way. : CasualUK

One element might be about what the British are not:

One reason is that the identity of Britain only began to be seriously investigated (as distinct from being taken for granted) after the Second World War, a time when peace and imperial retreat fostered a highly introverted view of the British past. With their subject reduced to a normally peaceful, increasingly disgruntled, and essentially second-ranking state on the peripheries of Europe, historians of Britain found it easier to understand its past in terms of internal social, political, religious, and cultural divisions, rather than approaching it as a one-time great power influencing and being influenced by every continent in the world...

Britishness and Otherness: An Argument on JSTOR

Colley - 1993 - Britishness and Otherness An Argument.pdf

How has empire influenced the British?

Jay Doubleyou: mle > multicultural london english

Jay Doubleyou: every town and city in britain profited from the slave trade

With an important book out here:

Jay Doubleyou: teaching empire in british schools

Jay Doubleyou: empire 2.0 and the 'imperial nostalgia' driving the british culture war

With more here:

Britain's Imperial Legacy: "It's Absolutely Everywhere" | HistoryExtra

Sathnam Sanghera on Empireland - How Imperialism Shaped Modern Britain - YouTube

Sathnam Sanghera and Samira Ahmed in Conversation, on Empireland | Humanists UK Convention 2021 - YouTube