Claire Westall is a Lecturer in English and Related Literature at the University of York. She co-edited, Literature of an Independent England (2013) and co-authored The Public on the Public (2015), both with Michael Gardiner.
This week’s guest editor, Claire Westall, a Lecturer in English and Related Literature at the University of York, guides us through the argument this week:
Despite the sale of televised England home-matches from the BBC to commercial broadcasting, cricket remains central to collective imaginings of 'Englishness'. Recent attempts to situate the sport within the history of empire reveal much about the BBC's continuing ties to the ideology of state-led
The desperate construction of cultural Britishness observable in this summer's Jubilee and Olympics is just another attempt to conflate British identity with an idealised vision of England. The motivation for those in power is clear: to disguise the gaping constitutional issues that threaten the U