Myths of the English / edited by Roy Porter.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK : Cambridge, MA :
Polity Press ; Blackwell Publishers [Distributor],
1992.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Gilbert and Sullivan: The making and un-making of a British 'tradition' / David Cannadine
- Speaking with double tongue: Mother Goose and the old wives' tale / Marina Warner
- The fifth of November remembered / David Cressy
- The tramp / M.A. Crowther
- The English Bobby: An indulgent tradition / Clive Emsley
- Name upon name: The Great War and Remembrance / Bob Bushaway
- Discretion, sobriety and wisdom: The teacher in children's books / Margaret Kinnell
- Authority in the university: Balliol, Newnham and the new mythology / Reba N. Soffer
- The gentleman and the hero: Wellington and Napoleon in the nineteenth century / Iain Pears
- Britishness and portraiture / Gertrude Prescott Nuding.