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ENGLAND & ENGLISHNESS: A Select Bibliography

David L.W. Ashton, Life Member

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

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


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