ENGLAND & ENGLISHNESS: A Select Bibliography

David L.W. Ashton, Life Member

GENERAL

A Mirror of England: The Writings of H.J. Massingham. Abelson, Edward (ed.) Totnes: Green Books. 216pp.
The Origins of the English Imagination. Ackroyd, Peter. Albion: London: Chatto & Windus 2002.
The English Novel. Allen, Walter. Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1973.
On England. Baldwin, Stanley. Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1937. 246pp.
National Character and the Factors in its Formation. Barker, Sir Ernest. London: Methuen. Rev. 1948. 268pp.
The Character of England. Barker, Sir Ernest (ed.) London: Readers' Union.1950 ed; OUP 1947.
The English World: History, Character & People. Blake, Robert (ed.) London: Thames & Hudson. 1982.
England, a Portrait. Bowle, John. London: Benn. 1968
The English Experience: A Survey of English History. Bowle, John. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1971 ed. 523pp.
The English People: Impressions and Observations. Brogan, D.W. London: Hamish Hamilton. 1943. 260pp.
The Englishman and his History. Butterfield, H[erbert]. Cambridge. UP. 1944. 142pp.
The Lion and the Unicorn. Bryant, Arthur. London: Collins. 1969.
The Island Race. Churchill, Winston S. London: Cassell, 1964.
England and the English, from an American Point of View. Collier, Price. London: Duckworth. 1909. 360pp.
Englishness: Politics and Culture 1880-1920. Colls, R. & P. Dodd (eds.) Croom Helm. 1986.
The Story of Saint George. Cooney, Anthony. Cheltenham: This England, 1999.
The Pocket Book of Patriotism. Courtauld, George. Halstead. 2004.
English Poets and the National Ideal. De Selincourt, E. London: Milford/OUP. 1915. 119pp.
The Englishman. Dixon, W. Macneile. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1938. 221pp.
Companion to English Literature. Drabble, Margaret. OUP. 1995
A Mirror for England: Durgnat, Raymond. (British Movies) London: Faber. 1970.
English Traits. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. London: Dent.
The Garden: An English Love Affair. Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jane. London: W&N/Seven Dails.nd.
The English Heritage. Finn, Rex Welldon. London: Right Book Club. 1937. 264pp.
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England. Fraser, Antonia (ed.) London: Futura. 1985. 308pp.
The Abolition of Britain. Hitchens, Peter. London: Quartet. 2000.
English Custom and Usage. Hole, Christina. London: Batsford. 1942. 152pp.
English Folklore. Hole, Christina. London: Batsford.
England. Inge, William Ralph. London: Benn. Rev. 1953. 284pp.
The English Difference. Jennings, Paul (ed.) London: Aurelia. 1974. 144pp.
England: Past, Present and Future. Jerrold, Douglas. London. 1950.
The Offshore Islanders: England's People from Roman Occupation to the Present. . Johnson, Paul. Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1975. 634pp.
The English Genius. Kingsmill, Hugh (ed.) London: Right Book Club. 1939. 285pp.
A Book of Words Kipling, Rudyard. (Inc. RSSG Address 1920). London: Macmillan, 1928.
Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism between the Wars. Light, Alison. London: Routledge. 1991.
An English Nationalism. King’s Lynn: Linsell, Tony. Athelney. 2001.
England and Englishness: Ideas of Nationhood in EnglishPoetry 1688-1900. Lucas, John. London: Hogarth Press. 1990. 227pp.
The English Way. Maillaud, Pierre. London: Milford/OUP. 1945. 270pp.
English Humour for Beginners. Mikes, George. London: Unwin. 1983. 149pp.
Roots of England. Miller, John & Sid Waddell. London: BBC. 1980.
Over Crowded Britain. Mote, Ashley. Petersfield: Tanner. 2003.
England: A Nation. Oldershaw, Lucian (ed.) London. 1904.
The English People. Orwell, George. London. 1947.
The English: A Portrait of a People. Paxman, Jeremy. London: Penguin.1999.
The Englishness of English Art. Pevsner, Nikolaus. Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1984.
Our Language. Potter, Simeon. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Rev. 1976. 207pp.
The English. Priestley, J.B. London: Heinemann. 1973. 256pp.
The English Spirit. Rowse, A.L. London: Macmillan. 1944.
Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British. Samuel, Raphael.
National Identity. London: Routledge. 1989. 3 vol.
The English Companion: An Idiosyncratic A-Z of England and Englishness. Smith, Godfrey. Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1985. 272pp.
Impressions of English Literature. Turner, W.J. (ed.)London: Collins. 1944. 324pp.
England, the Mysterious Island. Treves, Paolo. London: Gollancz. 1948. 135pp.

GENERAL ANTHOLOGIES

A Book of England. London: Brown, Ivor (ed.) Collins. 1958. 511pp.
England. Ingrams, Richard (ed.) London: Collins. 1989. 239pp.
English Fairy Tales. Jacobs, Joseph (ed). London: Muller. 1942.
For Ever England. Knox, Collie (ed.) London: Cassell. 1950. 244pp.
Portrait of England. Mawson, Christian (ed.) Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1942. 222pp.
Brewer’s Anthology of England and the English. Millsted David. London: Cassell. nd.
The English Vision. Read, Herbert (ed.) London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1933. 364pp.
The English Reader. Smith, Godfrey (ed.) London: Pavilion Books. 1988. 300pp.
The Essential Englishman. Steen, Douglas & Nicolas Soames (ed.) London: Cassell. 1989. 224pp.

POETRY

English History in Verse. Baker, Kenneth (ed.) London: Faber & Faber. Rev. 1989. 448pp.
The White Man’s Burdens: An Anthology of British Poetry of the Empire. Brooks, Chris & Peter Faulkner.Exeter: Exeter UP. 1996.
Tribute to England. Gilkes, Martin (ed.) London: Hutchinson. nd. 255pp.
Patriotic Poems. Leonard, R.M. (ed.) London: Milford/OUP. 1914. 128pp.
The Nine Days Wonder. Masefield, John. 1941.
England. Nicolson, Harold (ed.) London: English Association/Macmillan. 1944. 296pp.
The Land. Sackville-West, Victoria. London: Heinemann. 1933 ed. 96pp.
The Call of the Homeland. Scott, R.P. & Katharine T. Wallas (eds.)London: Blackie. 1907. 426pp.
Lyra Historica. Windsor, M.E. & J. Turral (eds.) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1911. 96pp
The Island. Young, Francis Brett. London: Heinemann. 1955.