Paul Rich

Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity

Edited by Raphael Samuel

Published January 1 1990

John Bull's Island

Immigration and British Society, 1871-1971

Published March 31 1989

The Quest for Englishness

Paul Rich describes how the aggressive imperialism of the late Victorian age co-existed uneasily with the intellectual search for English 'roots' in a pre-industrial and mythical past.

Published May 31 1987

Black People in Britain: Response and Reaction, 1945-62

Paul Rich argues that while the official response to post-war immigration was slow to develop, the tensions and white backlash of the late fifties marked its emergence as a national political issue.

Published January 1 1986

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.