Prime minister Quote by Salman Rushdie

It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity…

— Linda Colley

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose…

— Stuart Hall

“There is no understanding Englishness without understanding its imperial and colonial dimensions.”

— Stuart Hall

“... "England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in…

— Mitt Romney

“The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism…

— Andrea Levy

“the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human”

— Charles Dickens

A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom. The language…

— Linda Colley

“Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British”

— Ben Mitchell

“The period of which I write was an overshadowed one in British history, and especially in the history of the northern provinces. War was…

— Charlotte Brontë

London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English.

— Hussein Chalayan

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

— Madame de Stael

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted…

— Christopher Bailey