Wendy Webster, Reader in Contemporary British History, University of Central Lancashire

Winner of the International Association for Media and History Prize

"...an impressive book, valuable for its exhaustive and multifaceted use of sources and for the author's sophisticated perceptions of cultural change and its impact." - William D. Rubinstein, The English Historical Review

"As the first monograph to take seriously the notion that the end of empire reverberated inwardly on metropolitan culture and society, it offers a lively and stimulating corrective to the 'minimal impact' thesis." - History Workshop Journal

"Englishness and Empire represents a thoroughly researched and thought-provoking monograph, which will prove invaluable to studetns and researchers across the humanities." - Shompa Lahiri, Journal of British Studies

"Thoroughly researched, cogently argued and lucidly written, Englishness and Empire is an important work which deserves to be accorded major currency in the historiography of national identity." - James Chapman, History

"Wendy Webster's new book makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the effects of the loss of imperial power and the end of empire on British culture between 1939-65" - Catherine Hall, Twentieth-Century British History

"Webster provides an excellent starting point for post-imperial historians to consider the complexities of the effect of the end of empire and is likely to encourage further research on the variety of responses to the empire's demise at 'home'." - Paul Ward, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

"A highly readable study ... The novel focus makes this an important study for scholars of modern British history, empire and Commonwealth, decolonization, migration, gender, ethnicity and race." - History Today