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Introduction

Section 1: The many different Englands
Susan Bassnett
Discovering Englands

Section 2: Constitutional and identity issues
Richard Weight
'Featureless Britons': regionalism and Englishness during and since the Second World War
Robert Colls
South of the Border: is the North East English?
Christopher Harvie
The Moment of British Nationalism
Simon Partridge
The British-Irish Council: the trans-islands symbolic and political possibilities
Nicholas Deakin
The Englishness of United Kingdom Social Policy: setting policy priorities in an era of devolution
Joachim Schwend
The federal option for the UK
Olga Zderadickova
English Class: its firm past and hazy future
Milada Frankova
Divided Englishness: the north and south of the mind

Section 3: Englishness in literature
Jopi Nyman
Re-reading Rudyard Kipling’s English heroism: narrating nation in ‘The Jungle Book’
Ulla Rahbek
Representations of Englishness in Timothy Mo’s novel ‘Sour Sweet’
Flaminia Nicora
Academic Englishness: formation of national character in David Lodge’s campus novel

Section 4: Englishness in the Media
Film Nicholas Cull
The Great Escape of the Self-Preservation Society: Englishness in popular war and crime films
Television Charlotte Brunsdon
Lifestyling Britain: the 8-9 slot on television

Section 5: Workshops
Workshop 1
Workshop 2

Section 6: International perspectives
Malaysia Charlene Rajendran
Performing Identity: a stage for multi-lingual English and multi-cultural Englishness
Japan Tetsuya Taguchi
Looking for new England: popular images of Englishness after the Beatles
Czech Republic Simon Gill
Where Is My Home?
Turkey Lawrence Raw
Reconstructing Englishness
Hungary Gyorgy Szonyi
Introduction to English Studies from a Hungarian perspective

Section 7: Forum day
Andrew Motion
Julian Rathbone
Billy Bragg
Lola Young
Kwesi Owusu
Anthony Barnett
Jürgen Krönig
Michael Bracewell

Section 8: Rounding up
The silent questions

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