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Untidy Kingdom: A Reply by the Author

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2023

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Stuart Ward*
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University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Abstract

Author's response to the issues raised in the contributions to The Common Room round table on Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (2023)

Keywords

empiredecolonisationBritishnessglobal historyUnited Kingdom
Type
The Common Room – Round table
Information
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 1 , December 2023 , pp. 373 - 380
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Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Royal Historical Society

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References

1 Ward, Stuart, Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (Cambridge, 2023), 152–4CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 See especially her Englishness and Empire, 1939–65 (Oxford, 2005).

3 Untied Kingdom, 4.

4 Ibid., 48, 159–63.

5 Ibid., 154.

6 Ibid., 481.

7 Devine, T. M., ‘The Break-up of Britain? Scotland and the End of Empire’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 16 (2006), 163–80CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 163, 166.

8 David Edgerton, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth Century History (2018), 18, 25, 255, 269, 316, 385-6, 458, 471.

9 Untied Kingdom, 480.

10 Ibid., 344.

11 Ibid., 383.

12 Which is essentially the ploy devised on p. 386 of Untied Kingdom.

13 Conrad, Sebastian, What Is Global History? (Princeton, 2016), 131CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

14 Ibid., 41.

15 Dubow, Saul, ‘How British Was the British World? The Case of South Africa’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 37 (2009), 1–27CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 14.

16 Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation (1996), 4, 18.