English nationalism

Understanding National Identity

Author / Creator: David McCrone

Media type: Book

Date published: 2015

How does national identity relate to politics and constitutional change?


Will ‘British values’ keep us together?

Author / Creator: Michael Keating

Media type: Blog

Date published:

The main threat to the union no longer comes from the nationalisms of the periphery but from the attempt by unionism to monopolise universal values and dress them with the nationalising language of Britishness. 


A Sign on the Road

Author / Creator: John S Warren

Media type: News Media

Date published:

A critique of "Strength in Union: The Case for the United Kingdom", and especially Alister Jack's view of Scotland in the Union.


Strength in Union: The Case for the United Kingdom

Author / Creator: Alister Jack

Media type: Collection of essays by a Conservative Think Tank

Date published: September 2021

Is Scotland a Nation or a Region. MP David Cameron called Scotland a Nation in September 2014 in the run up to the Referendum. In 2021, Alister Jack, Secretary of State for Scotland, refers to Scotland as a region.


Brexit, nationalism and disintegration in the European Union and the United Kingdom

Author / Creator: Ben Wellings

Media type: Academic Paper

Date published: 2020

The Brexit referendum opened up conflict between executive, parliamentary, national and popular sovereignties in the differing nations of the United Kingdom and had a noticeable effect on British disintegration.