Last Friday morning, 5,295,000 Scots woke up still British. The Scottish independence referendum was defeated and as the results came in, it was clear that it never really stood a chance. Only four of ...

Clara Sandelind is affiliated with the Swedish think tank, Migro. Of course Nadiya Hussain won the Great British Bake Off because she is a Muslim. For those unfamiliar with Islam, Victorian baking ...

Teenagers will be taught British history including lessons on the Commonwealth and empire under reforms to school citizenship classes. Education Secretary Alan Johnson said he accepted a major report ...

In recent years, much of the discourse around British identity has centred on division and polarisation, particularly after Brexit. A cursory glance at headlines (at least, pre-coronavirus, before ...

Mark A Hutchinson receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust as a research fellow as part of the project 'Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique' at the University of York. The genealogy ...

One of Stormont's longest-serving members has said he wants to kick-start a debate about British identity and how it can be accommodated in a united Ireland. Mid Ulster MLA Patsy McGlone believes a ...

This week, researchers from the Natural History Museum in London revealed a facial model of a fossilized Stone Age hunter-gatherer who died around what is now the English town of Cheddar, in Somerset ...

A scandal in 2014, known as the Trojan Horse affair, exposed what it’s like living in Britain as a British Pakistani. This article was produced in collaboration with a new podcast from Serial and The ...

Oscar, BAFTA and Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen has said that broadcasters BBC and Channel 4 are an integral part of British identity. During the Virgin Media BAFTA TV awards on Sunday, McQueen ...