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The World Cup was named the occasion where Britons feel most comfortable indulging their patriotic side, followed by the Olympic Games and Armistice Day. Generally, older Britons feel more patriotic than younger generations, with 40 per cent of those aged 55 and over describing themselves as “very patriotic”, compared to 18 per cent of those… Continue reading Patriotism Part 8

Britons are increasingly afraid to show their national pride in public for fear of ridicule or abuse, a poll has found. Many of those surveyed believed national pride is on the wane, with younger generations placing less importance on patriotism than ever before, The 1940s was the decade when patriotism was at its height, when… Continue reading Patriotism Part 7

In most contexts today, nationalism is “the policy or doctrine of asserting the interests of one’s own nation viewed as separate from the interests of other nations or the common interests of all nations.” In short, nationalism is a kind of excessive, aggressive patriotism. Modernnationalismis rooted, in part, in French and American revolutions that fought… Continue reading Patriotism Part 6

Patriotism could be politically subversive, allowing groups to believe that they, rather than the ruling powers, actually had the best interests of the country at heart. This was true for Jacobites opposed to William III and his successors. It was also true of the ‘patriots’ who fought the British in the American War of Independence… Continue reading Patriotism Part 4

Patriotic ideas continually recur from Bede’s eighth century ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’ onwards. But the theme of patriotism became particularly important in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 which saw James II overthrown in favour of William III and Mary II. This new political settlement raised big questions about who was… Continue reading Patriotism Part 3