- Christopher G. A. BRYANT: The Nations of Britain (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
- Linda COLLEY: Britons: Forging the Nation 1707 – 1837 (London, Pimlico, 2003).
- Keith ROBBINS: Great Britain: Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness (London, Longman, 1998).
- Compendium for ENG 2505 – Identities in the British Isles
ADDITIONAL/SUPPLEMENTARY READING:
- Yasmin ALIBHAI BROWN: Who do we think we are?: imagining the new Britain (London, 2000).
- Peter COLLS: Identity of England (Oxford, 2004).
- Paul GILRAY: There ain’t no black in the Union Jack: the cultural politics of race and nation (Chicago, 1991).
- Peter GRAY: Victoria’s Ireland? : Irishness and Britishness, 1837-1901 (Dublin, 2004).
- Christopher HARVIE: Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics, 1707-1994 (London, 1994).
- Kenneth MORGAN: Rebirth of a Nation: A History of Modern Wales (Oxford, 1981).
- Tom NAIRN: After Britain: New Labour and the return of Scotland (London, 2001).
- Tom NAIRN: The Break-Up of Britain: crisis and neo-nationalism (London, 1981).
- David POWELL: Nationhood and Identity: the British state since 1800 (I. B. Tauris, London, 2002).