The essays in this collection show how histories written in the past, in different political times, dealt with, considered, or avoided and disavowed Britain's imperial role and issues of difference.

Ranging from enlightenment historians to the present, these essays consider both individual historians, including such key figures as E. A. Freeman, G. M. Trevelyan and Keith Hancock, and also broader themes such as the relationship between liberalism, race and historiography and how we might re-think British history in the light of trans-national, trans-imperial and cross-cultural analysis.

'Britishness' and what 'British' history is have become major cultural and political issues in our time. But as these essays demonstrate, there is no single national story: race, empire and difference have pulsed through the writing of British history.
The contributors include some of the most distinguished historians writing today: C. A. Bayly, Antoinette Burton, Saul Dubow, Geoff Eley, Theodore Koditschek, Marilyn Lake, John M. MacKenzie, Karen O'Brien, Sonya O. Rose, Bill Schwarz, Kathleen Wilson.

About the Author
Catherine Hall is Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London. Keith McClelland is a Research Associate on the Legacies of British slave-ownership project, Department of History, University College London

Reviews

'An interesting, useful volume.'
Northern History, 2013 L (I)

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Book Information
ISBN 9780719082665
Author Catherine Hall
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press