List members might be interested in an article shortly to be added to the Royal
Historical Society Bibliography :
Author: Clarke, Peter, 1942-
Title: 'The English-Speaking Peoples Before Churchill'
Journal: Britain and the World Vol./pt: 4:2 Date: 2011 Pages:
199-231
Notes: The English-speaking peoples' is a phrase indelibly associated with Winston Churchill, both as politician and as author. It
is often assumed that this concept originated in socially privileged, politically conservative and generally establishment-minded
circles and that it achieved its greatest currency in the Churchill-Roosevelt era spanning World War Two. But how much interest
had Churchill actually shown in the English-speaking peoples in his early career? This artcile looks for the historical origins of
the concept, initially by exploring the databases of some leading British and American newspapers. The significance of the
American Civil War, in generating a common language of democratic populism, becomes clear. Likewise the use of Anglo-Saxonist
terminology, not least by whiggish historians, is examined, as are concepts like Greater Britain and the term Commonweath as
applied to the British Empire. Historians will not be surprised to learn that all these usages changed over time, appealing to
different constituencies, and responding to political as well as intellectual influences. Thus the concept of the English-speaking
peoples had its own history, long before it became a subject for the pen, and for the tongue, of Winston Churchill.
Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Head of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
France
[email protected]
'Britain since 1914' Section Editor
Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Reviews Editor of CERCLES
http://www.cercles.com/review/reviews.html
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